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Founded in 1636, Harvard University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States. From its classrooms have emerged six American presidents – from John Adams to john Kennedy – and an impressive group of statesmen, business leaders and literary figures. It campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just across the Charles River from Boston, provides a rich architectural mix that includes the ivy-covered brick of Puritan New England and the concrete and glass of contemporary design.
Today the University includes Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduate colleges, 10 professional schools, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and an extension school. There are some 1,600 students from every state and 45 foreign countries in it; tuition is about $22,000 a year (not including room and board), and 70 % of those attending receive financial aid in the form of load or outright grants.
The University’s library system is the largest in the world. It contains more than 10 million volumes subscribes to 100,000 periodicals. There are three notable art museums which house works from ancient Egyptian to contemporary American. There are also Botanical Museum, 40 acres of fields, an experimental forest located in New England, a center for a study of the Italian Renaissance in Italy, and a centre for Byzantine studies in Washington, D.C.
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