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Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford

The best Universities of the world

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Harvard � University

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  • Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1636.

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Harvard University

  • Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corpora-tion in North America.

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  • Harvard University is made up of ten schools including the Harvard Business, Law, and Medical Schools.

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  • Harvard has about 20,000 students.

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John Harvard

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  • Harvard was named after John Harvard, its first benefactor, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 .

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Harvard`s Library

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John Harvard

  • Harvard's original library was founded in 1638 with

a bequest of 400 books from John

Harvard.

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  • Now the university has more than 80 libraries with numerous special divisions. The largest university collection in the world, the libraries house more than 15 million volumes as well as papers, manuscripts, incunabula , prints, digital resources, and other materials.

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Six presidents of the USA studied � at Harvard:�

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(1933-1945) (1961-1963)

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Cambridge and � Oxford Universities�

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Cambridge University

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Cambridge University

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  • Cambridge is one of the best known towns in the world. It is famous for its university, which started during the 13th century.

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Peterhouse college

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  • Today there are about 30 colleges.

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  • The oldest one is Peterhouse, which was founded in 1284.

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Robinson � College

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The most recent

is Robinson College, which was opened in

1977.

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King`s college

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  • The most famous is King`s college, because of its magnificent chapel.

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Its choir of boys and under -graduates is well known all over the world.

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��������� Nowadays almost all the colleges are mixed.�

  • The Universities were only for men until 19th century when the first women`s college was opened. Later the doors of colleges were opened to both men and women.

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Every year thousands of students come to Cambridge from overseas to study English.

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Oxford University

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Oxford University

The first of Oxford`s colleges was founded in 1249. the university now has 35 colleges and about 13000 students, many of them from other countries.

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Lady Margaret Hall

  • There were no women at Oxford until 1878. When the first women`s college Lady Margaret Hall, opened.
  • Now most colleges are opened to men and women.

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Oxford University

  • It is not easy to get a place at Oxford University to study for a degree.

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  • Outside the university there many smaller private colleges which offer less difficult courses and where it is easy to enter.

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