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- Entrance examination was introduced by president Charles William Eliot
- "Harvard Classics" are collections of great books from various disciplines
- Harvard library contains more than 15 million volumes
- Has the largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization
- Harvard Crimson one of America's oldest daily university newspapers
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Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. It is incidentally the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Moreover, it is the oldest corporation in North America. The institution was at first called ‘New College’ or ‘the college at New Towne.’ It was given the name of ‘Harvard College’ on March 13, 1639, after John Harvard, a young clergyman, who bequeathed his library of 400 books and 779 Pounds to the institution. The earliest reference to it as a university occurs is found in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. Harvard is now a modern research university with the fourth largest library in the world. It is now number one in international college and university rankings.
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