*harvard hop* - -KINGDOM OF JOGA-

*INCOMING ‘CLASS OF 2006’*

“harvard hop!”
“leap year!”

*OUTGOING ‘CLASS OF 2005’*

(all thanks to my ‘advanced standing’)
(“power of 3”)

(‘harvard university’ is a ‘private ‘ivy league’ research university’ in ‘cambridge’ (/ ‘massachusetts’))

*~ ‘6,700 undergraduate students’*

(…and ~ ‘15,250 post-graduate students’)

(established in ‘1636’ and named for its 1st benefactor -clergy-man ‘john harvard’)

“let’s hear it for him!”

(‘harvard’ is america’s oldest ‘institution of ‘higher learning”)

(its [‘history’ / ‘influence’ / ‘wealth’] have made it one of the world’s most prestigious universities)

(‘the harvard corporation’ is its first ‘chartered corporation’)

(although never formally affiliated with any ‘denomination’, the early college primarily trained ‘congregational / unitarian’ clergy)

(its ‘curriculum’ + ‘student body’ were gradually ‘secularized’ during the ‘1700s’, and by the 1800s, ‘harvard’ had emerged as the ‘central cultural establishment’ among ‘boston elites’)

(following the ‘american civil war’, ‘president charles w eliot’s long tenure (1869 – 1909) transformed the ‘college’ + ‘affiliated professional schools’ into a ‘modern research university’)

(‘harvard’ was a ‘founding member’ of the ‘association of american universities’ in ‘1900’)

(‘a. lawrence lowell’ – who followed ‘eliot’ – further reformed the ‘undergraduate curriculum’ + undertook ‘aggressive expansion’ of harvard’s ‘land holdings’ + ‘physical plant’)

(‘james bryant conant’ led the ‘university’ through the ‘great depression’ + ‘world war 2’ and began to reform the ‘curriculum’ and liberalize admissions after the war)

(the ‘undergraduate college’ became ‘co-educational’ after its ‘1977 merger’ with ‘radcliffe college’)

(the university is organized into 11 separate ‘academic units’…)

*10 faculties*

*the ‘radcliffe institute for ‘advanced study”*

(‘harvard’ has campuses (“campusi?”) throughout the ‘boston metropolitan area’…)

(its 209-acre (/ ’85 hectare’) main campus is centered on ‘harvard yard’ in ‘cambridge’, approximately ‘3 miles’ (/ 5 kilometers) northwest of ‘boston’)

(the ‘business school’ + ‘athletics facilities’ (including ‘harvard stadium’) are located across the ‘charles river’ in the ‘allston neighborhood’ of ‘boston’)

(the (‘medical’ / ‘dental’ / ‘public health’ schools) are in the ‘longwood medical area’)

(harvard’s endowment is worth ‘$39.2 billion’, making it the largest of any ‘academic institution’)

(‘harvard’ is a ‘large’ + ‘highly residential’ research university)

(the nominal cost of ‘attendance’ is high, but the university’s large ‘endowment’ allows it to offer generous ‘financial aid packages’)

(the ‘harvard library’ is the world’s largest ‘academic’ + ‘private’ library system, comprising ’79 individual libraries’ holding over ’18 million items’)

(the university is cited as one of the world’s top tertiary institutions by various ‘organizations’)

(harvard’s alumni include…)

*8 american presidents*

“JOHN ADAMS”
(undergraduate)

“JOHN QUINCY ADAMS”
(undergraduate)
(transferred from “leiden university”)
(way out in ‘the netherlands’!)
(WTF?)

*RUTHERFORD B HAYES*
(harvard law school)

*THEODORE ROOSEVELT*
(undergraduate)

*FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT*
(undergraduate)

(5TH COUSIN OF ‘THEODORE’)
(he also married theodore’s (favorite) niece eleanor)
(and theodore was fond of the couple until he died in 1919)

“JFK”

and what became of ‘jane adams’?)
(‘atom bombs’)

*over 30 foreign ‘heads of state’*