History
Colonial
Harvard was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was renamed
Harvard Collegeon March 13, 1639. It was named after
John Harvard, a young English
clergyman from
Southwark,
London, an alumnus of the
University of Cambridge (after which Cambridge, Massachusetts is named), who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and
£779
pounds sterling, which was half of his estate.
[18] The charter creating the corporation of Harvard College came in 1650. In the early years, the College trained many Puritan ministers.
[19] The college offered a classic academic course based on the English university model—many leaders in the colony had attended
Cambridge University—but one consistent with the prevailing
Puritan philosophy. The college was never affiliated with any particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Congregational and Unitarian churches throughout New England.
[20] An early brochure, published in 1643, described the founding of the college as a response to the desire "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches".
[21]The leading Boston divine
Increase Mather served as president from 1685 to 1701. In 1708,
John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman, which marked a turning of the College toward intellectual independence from Puritanism.
19th century
Religion and philosophy
The takeover of Harvard by the
Unitarians in 1805 resulted in the
secularization of the American college. By 1850 Harvard was the "Unitarian Vatican." The "liberals" (Unitarians) allied themselves with
high Federalists and began to create a set of private societies and institutions meant to shore up their cultural and political authority, a movement that prefigured the emergence of the
Boston Brahmin class. On the other hand, the theological conservatives used print media to argue for the maintenance of open debate and democratic governance through a diverse public sphere, seeing the liberals' movement as an attempt to create a cultural oligarchy in opposition to Congregationalist tradition and republican political principles.
[22]In 1846, the natural history lectures of
Louis Agassiz were acclaimed both in New York and on the campus at Harvard College. Agassiz's approach was distinctly idealist and posited Americans' 'participation in the Divine Nature' and the possibility of understanding 'intellectual existences.' Agassiz's perspective on science combined observation with intuition and the assumption that one can grasp the 'divine plan' in all phenomena. When it came to explaining life-forms, Agassiz resorted to matters of shape based on a presumed archetype for his evidence. This dual view of knowledge was in concert with the teachings of
Common Sense Realism derived from Scottish philosophers
Thomas Reid and Dugald Stewart, whose works were part of the Harvard curriculum at the time. The popularity of Agassiz's efforts to 'soar with Plato' probably also derived from other writings to which Harvard students were exposed, including Platonic treatises by Ralph Cudworth, John Norris, and, in a Romantic vein,
Samuel Coleridge. The library records at Harvard reveal that the writings of Plato and his early modern and Romantic followers were almost as regularly read during the 19th century as those of the 'official philosophy' of the more empirical and more deistic Scottish school.
[23]Charles W. Eliot, president 1869–1909, eliminated the favored position of Christianity from the curriculum while opening it to student self-direction. While Eliot was the most crucial figure in the secularization of American higher education, he was motivated not by a desire to secularize education, but by
Transcendentalist Unitarian convictions. Derived from
William Ellery Channing and
Ralph Waldo Emerson, these convictions were focused on the dignity and worth of human nature, the right and ability of each person to perceive truth, and the indwelling God in each person.
[24] 20th century
Richard Rummell's 1906 watercolor landscape view, facing northeast.
[25]During the 20th century, Harvard's international reputation grew as a burgeoning endowment and prominent professors expanded the university's scope. Explosive growth in the student population continued with the addition of new graduate schools and the expansion of the undergraduate program.
Radcliffe College, established in 1879 as sister school of Harvard College, became one of the most prominent schools for women in the United States.
Meritocracy
James Bryant Conant (president, 1933–1953) reinvigorated creative scholarship to guarantee its preeminence among research institutions. He saw higher education as a vehicle of opportunity for the talented rather than an entitlement for the wealthy, so Conant devised programs to identify, recruit, and support talented youth. In 1943, he asked the faculty make a definitive statement about what general education ought to be, at the secondary as well as the college level. The resulting
Report, published in 1945, was one of the most influential manifestos in the history of American education in the 20th century.
[26] In 1945–1960 admissions policies were opened up to bring in students from a more diverse applicant pool. No longer drawing mostly from rich alumni of select New England prep schools, the undergraduate college was now open to striving middle class students from public schools; many more Jews and Catholics were admitted, but few blacks, Hispanics or Asians.
[27]Women
Women remained segregated at Radcliffe, though more and more took Harvard classes. Nonetheless, Harvard's undergraduate population remained predominantly male, with about four men attending Harvard College for every woman studying at Radcliffe. Following the merger of Harvard and Radcliffe admissions in 1977, the proportion of female undergraduates steadily increased, mirroring a trend throughout higher education in the United States. Harvard's graduate schools, which had accepted females and other groups in greater numbers even before the college, also became more diverse in the post-World War II period.
Drew Gilpin Faust, the Dean at Radcliffe, became the first woman president of Harvard in 2007.
Liberalism
President
Lawrence Summers resigned his presidency in 2006. His resignation came just one week before a second planned vote of no confidence by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Former president
Derek Bok served as interim president. Members of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which instructs graduate students in GSAS and undergraduates in Harvard College, had passed an earlier motion of "lack of confidence" in Summers' leadership on March 15, 2005 by a 218–185 vote, with 18 abstentions. The 2005 motion was precipitated by comments about the causes of gender demographics in academia made at a closed academic conference and leaked to the press.
[35] In response, Summers convened two committees to study this issue: the Task Force on Women Faculty and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering. Summers had also pledged $50 million to support their recommendations and other proposed reforms.
Drew Gilpin Faust is the 28th president of Harvard. An
American historian, former dean of the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard University, Faust is the first female president in the university's history.
[36][37]Administration and organization
Harvard University campus (circa 1938)
A faculty of approximately 2,410 professors, lecturers, and instructors serve as of school year 2009–10,
[38] with 7,180
undergraduate and 13,830
graduate students.
[39] The school color is
crimson, which is also the name of the Harvard sports teams and the daily newspaper,
The Harvard Crimson. The color was unofficially adopted (in preference to
magenta) by an 1875 vote of the student body, although the association with some form of red can be traced back to 1858, when
Charles William Eliot, a young graduate student who would later become Harvard's 21st and longest-serving president (1869–1909), bought red bandanas for his crew so they could more easily be distinguished by spectators at a regatta.
Organization
Harvard has the following faculties:
Endowment
Harvard has the largest
university endowment in the world. As of September 2011, it had nearly regained the loss suffered during the 2008 recession. It was worth $32 billion in 2011, up from $27.6 billion in September 2010
[42] and $25.7 billion 2009. It suffered about 30% loss in 2008-2009.
[4][43] In December 2008, Harvard announced that its endowment had lost 22% (approximately $8 billion) from July to October 2008, necessitating budget cuts.
[44] Later reports
[45] suggest the loss was actually more than double that figure, a reduction of nearly 50% of its endowment in the first four months alone. Forbes in March 2009 estimated the loss to be in the range of $12 billion.
[46] One of the most visible results of Harvard's attempt to re-balance its budget was their halting
[45] of construction of the $1.2 billion Allston Science Complex that had been scheduled to be completed by 2011, resulting in protests from local residents.
[47]Campus
Map showing the architects and dates of construction for the buildings of the main campus near Harvard square, as of 2005. Information on other notable nearby buildings is also included.
Each residential house contains rooms for undergraduates, House masters, and resident tutors, as well as a dining hall, library, and various other student facilities. The facilities were made possible by a gift from
Yale University alumnus
Edward Harkness.
[49]
Memorial Church in the winter
From 2006 - 2008, Harvard University reported on-campus crime statistics that included 48 forcible sex offenses, 10 robberies, 15 aggravated assaults, 750 burglaries, and 12 cases of motor vehicle theft.
[50]Satellite facilities
Major campus expansion
Throughout the past several years, Harvard has purchased large tracts of land in
Allston, a walk across the Charles River from Cambridge, with the intent of major expansion southward.
[52] The university now owns approximately fifty percent more land in Allston than in Cambridge. Various proposals to connect the traditional Cambridge campus with the new Allston campus include new and enlarged bridges, a shuttle service and/or a
tram. Ambitious plans also call for sinking part of
Storrow Drive (at Harvard's expense) for replacement with park land and pedestrian access to the
Charles River, as well as the construction of bike paths, and an intently planned fabric of buildings throughout the Allston campus. The institution asserts that such expansion will benefit not only the school, but surrounding community, pointing to such features as the enhanced transit infrastructure, possible shuttles open to the public, and park space which will also be publicly accessible.
One of the foremost driving forces for Harvard's pending expansion is its goal of substantially increasing the scope and strength of its science and technology programs. The university plans to construct two 500,000 square foot (50,000 m²) research complexes in Allston, which would be home to several interdisciplinary programs, including the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and an enlarged
Engineering department.
In addition, Harvard intends to relocate the
Harvard Graduate School of Education and the
Harvard School of Public Health to Allston. The university also plans to construct several new undergraduate and graduate student housing centers in Allston, and it is considering large-scale museums and performing arts complexes as well. Unfortunately the large drop in endowment has halted these plans for now.
Sustainability
In 2000, Harvard hired a full-time campus
sustainability professional and launched the Harvard Green Campus Initiative,
[53] since institutionalized as the Office for Sustainability (OFS).
[54]With a full-time staff of 25, dozens of student interns, and a $12 million Loan Fund for energy and water conservation projects, OFS is one of the most advanced campus sustainability programs in the country.
[55] Harvard was one of 27 schools to receive a grade of "A-" from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card 2010, the highest grade awarded.
[56]Academics
Harvard is a large, highly residential research university.
[57] The university has been
accredited by the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges since 1929.
[58] The university offers 46 undergraduate concentrations (majors),
[59] 134 graduate degrees,
[60] and 32 professional degrees.
[61] For the 2008–2009 academic year, Harvard granted 1,664 baccalaureate degrees, 400 masters degrees, 512 doctoral degrees, and 4,460 professional degrees.
[61]The four year, full-time undergraduate program comprises a minority of enrollments at the university and emphasizes instruction with an "arts & sciences focus".
[57] Between 1978 and 2008, entering students were required to complete a "Core Curriculum" of seven classes outside of their concentration.
[62] Since 2008, undergraduate students have been required to complete courses in eight General Education categories: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, Culture and Belief, Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, Ethical Reasoning, Science of Living Systems, Science of the Physical Universe, Societies of the World, and United States in the World.
[63] Harvard offers a comprehensive doctoral graduate program and there is a high level of coexistence between graduate and undergraduate degrees.
[57] The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
The New York Times, and some students have criticized Harvard for its reliance on
teaching fellows for some aspects of undergraduate education; they consider this to adversely affect the quality of education.
[64][65]Harvard's academic programs operate on a
semester calendar beginning in early September and ending in mid-May.
[66] Undergraduates typically take four half-courses per term and must maintain a four-course rate average to be considered full time.
[67] In many concentrations, students can elect to pursue a basic program or a honors-eligible program requiring a senior thesis and/or advanced course work.
[68] Students graduating in the top 4-5% of the class are awarded degrees
summa cum laude, students in the next 15% of the class are awarded
magna cum laude, and the next 30% of the class are awarded
cum laude.
[69] Harvard has chapters of academic honor societies such as
Phi Beta Kappa and various committees and departments also award several hundred named prizes annually.
[70] Harvard, along with other universities, has been accused of
grade inflation,
[71] although there is evidence that the quality of the student body and its motivation have also increased.
[72] Harvard College reduced the number of students who receive
Latin honors from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. Moreover, the honors of "John Harvard Scholar" and "Harvard College Scholar" will now be given only to the top 5 percent and the next 5 percent of each class.
[73][74][75][76]Undergraduate tuition for the 2009–2010 school year was $33,696 and the total cost with fees, room, and board was $48,868.
[77] Under financial aid guidelines adopted in 2007, parents in families with incomes of less than $60,000 will no longer be expected to contribute any money to the cost of attending Harvard for their children, including room and board. Families with incomes in the $60,000 to $80,000 range contribute an amount of only a few thousand dollars a year. In December 2007, Harvard announced that families earning between $120,000 and $180,000 will only have to pay up to 10% of their annual household income towards tuition.
[78] In 2009, Harvard offered grants totaling $414.1 million across all 11 divisions; $339.5 million came from institutional funds, $35.3 million from federal support, and $39.2 million from other outside support. Grants total 87.7% of Harvard's aid for undergraduate students, with aid also provided by loans (8.4%) and work-study (3.9%).
[77]Rankings
Internationally, Harvard is tied with
Stanford University for second in the
Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is second in the
QS World University Rankings.
[89][90][91] When the two lists were published in partnership between 2004 and 2009 as the
Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, Harvard was ranked first each year.
[91][92] Harvard is ranked first by the
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), a position it has held since the first ARWU rankings were released in 2003.
[93] In its individual subject tables, ARWU ranked Harvard first in natural sciences and mathematics,
[94] life and agricultural sciences,
[95] clinical medicine and pharmacy,
[96]social sciences,
[97] and 42nd in engineering/technology and computer sciences.
[98] In individual fields in 2010, Harvard is ranked first in Physics and Economics/Business, second in Chemistry, third in Mathematics, and ninth in Computer Science in the world.
[99]In 2010, according to University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), Harvard is the best overall university in the world.
[101]Research
- Research centers attached to schools and departments
- Department of Psychology: Prosopagnosia Research Centers at Harvard University and University College London[103]
- Graduate School of Design:[104] Center for Alternative Futures, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Center for Technology & the Environment
- Harvard Law School:[105] Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Institute for Global Law & Policy (former European Law Research Center), John M. Olin Center of Law, Economics and Business
- Independent organizations affiliated to the university
Libraries and museums
Cabot Science Library, Lamont Library, and Widener Library are three of the most popular libraries for undergraduates to use, with easy access and central locations. There are rare books,
manuscripts and other special collections throughout Harvard's libraries;
[107] Houghton Library, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and the Harvard University Archives consist principally of rare and unique materials. America's oldest collection of maps, gazetteers, and atlases both old and new is stored in Pusey Library and open to the public. The largest collection of
East-Asian language material outside of East Asia is held in the
Harvard-Yenching Library.
Henry Moore's sculpture
Large Four Piece Reclining Figure near Lamont Library
Harvard operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums:
Students
In the last six years,
Harvard's student population ranged between 19,000 and 21,000, across all programs. Harvard enrolled 6,655 students in undergraduate programs, 3,738 students in graduate programs, and 10,722 students in professional programs.
[108] The undergraduate population is 51% female, the graduate population is 48% female, and the professional population is 49% female.
[108]Undergraduate admission to Harvard is characterized by the Carnegie Foundation as "more selective, lower transfer-in".
[57] Harvard College received 27,462 applications for admission to the Class of 2013, 2,175 were admitted (7.9%), and 1,658 enrolled (76.2%).
[109] The
interquartile range on the
SAT was 2080–2370 and 95% of first year students graduated in the top tenth of their high school class.
[109] Harvard also enrolled 266
National Merit Scholars, the most in the nation.
[110] 88% of students graduate within 4 years and 98% graduate within 6 years.
[111]Demographics of student body[108][112]
| Undergraduate | Graduate | Professional | U.S. Census |
|---|
| Black/Non-Hispanic | 8% | 3% | 6% | 12.1% |
|---|
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 17% | 9% | 12% | 4.3% |
|---|
| White/Non-Hispanic | 42% | 42% | 43% | 65.8% |
|---|
| Hispanic | 7% | 3% | 5% | 14.5% |
|---|
| Native American | 1% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.9% |
|---|
| International Students | 11% | 33% | 22% | N/A |
|---|
Harvard College accepted 6.9% of applicants for the class of 2014, a record low for the school's entire history.
[113] The number of acceptances was lower for the class of 2013 partially because the university anticipated increased rates of enrollment after announcing a large increase in financial aid in 2008.
[citation needed] Harvard College ended its early admissions program in 2007 as the program was believed to disadvantage low-income and under-represented minority applicants applying to selective universities.
[114] However, undergraduate admissions office's
preference for children of alumni policies have been the subject of scrutiny and debate as it primarily aids whites and the wealthy.
[115][116]Athletics
Harvard's athletic rivalry with
Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax each fall in their annual
football meeting, which dates back to 1875 and is usually called simply "
The Game". While Harvard's football team is no longer one of the country's best as it often was a century ago during football's early days (it won the
Rose Bowl in 1920), both it and Yale have influenced the way the game is played. In 1903,
Harvard Stadium introduced a new era into football with the first-ever permanent reinforced concrete stadium of its kind in the country. The stadium's structure actually played a role in the evolution of the college game. Seeking to reduce the alarming number of deaths and serious injuries in the sport, the Father of Football,
Walter Camp (former captain of the Yale football team), suggested widening the field to open up the game. But the state-of-the-art Harvard Stadium was too narrow to accommodate a wider playing surface. So, other steps had to be taken. Camp would instead support revolutionary new rules for the 1906 season. These included legalizing the
forward pass, perhaps the most significant rule change in the sport's history.
[117][118]Harvard has several athletic facilities, such as the
Lavietes Pavilion, a multi-purpose arena and home to the Harvard basketball teams. The Malkin Athletic Center, known as the "MAC", serves both as the university's primary recreation facility and as a satellite location for several varsity sports. The five story building includes two cardio rooms, an
Olympic-size swimming pool, a smaller pool for aquaerobics and other activities, a mezzanine, where all types of classes are held at all hours of the day, and an indoor cycling studio, three weight rooms, and a three-court gym floor to play basketball. The MAC also offers personal trainers and specialty classes. The MAC is also home to Harvard volleyball, fencing, and wrestling. The offices of several of the school's varsity coaches are also in the MAC.
Weld Boathouse and Newell Boathouse house the women's and men's rowing teams, respectively. The men's crew also uses the Red Top complex in Ledyard, Connecticut, as their training camp for the annual
Harvard-Yale Regatta. The Bright Hockey Center hosts the Harvard hockey teams, and the Murr Center serves both as a home for Harvard's squash and tennis teams as well as a strength and conditioning center for all athletic sports.
As of 2006, there were 41 Division I intercollegiate
varsity sports teams for women and men at Harvard, more than at any other NCAA Division I college in the country. As with other Ivy League universities, Harvard does not offer
athletic scholarships.
[119]
Harvard v
Brown, September 25, 2009
Harvard's men's ice hockey team won the school's first NCAA Championship in any team sport in 1989. Harvard was also the first Ivy League institution to win a NCAA championship title in a women's sport when its women's lacrosse team won the NCAA Championship in 1990.
Harvard Undergraduate Television has footage from historical games and athletic events including the 2005 pep-rally before the Harvard-Yale Game. Harvard's official athletics website has more comprehensive information about Harvard's athletic facilities.
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Notable people
Faculty and staff
Alumni
Among the best-known people who have attended Harvard University are American political leaders
John Hancock,
John Adams,
John Quincy Adams,
Rutherford B. Hayes,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Franklin Roosevelt,
John F. Kennedy,
Al Gore,
George W. Bush and
Barack Obama; Canadian Governor General
David Lloyd Johnston, Canadian Prime Ministers
Mackenzie King and
Pierre Trudeau, and Canadian political leader
Michael Ignatieff; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Shaun Donovan; religious leader, businessman & philanthropist
Aga Khan IV; businessman & philanthropist
Bill Gates; philanthropist
Huntington Hartford; Mexican Presidents
Felipe Calderón,
[121] Carlos Salinas de Gortari and
Miguel de la Madrid; Chilean President
Sebastián Piñera; Colombian President
Juan Manuel Santos; Costa Rican President
José MarÃa Figueres; Businessman and Financier
Scott Mead; Taiwanese President
Ma Ying-jeou; Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Supreme Court President
Aharon Barak; Peruvian President
Alejandro Toledo; Albanian Prime Minister
Fan S. Noli; UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon; philosopher
Henry David Thoreau; authors
Ralph Waldo Emerson and
William S. Burroughs; educator
Harlan Hanson; poets
Wallace Stevens,
T. S. Eliot and
E. E. Cummings; conductor
Leonard Bernstein; cellist
Yo Yo Ma; comedian and television show host and writer
Conan O'Brien; actors
Fred Gwynne,
Jack Lemmon,
Natalie Portman,
Mira Sorvino,
Ashley Judd,
Tatyana Ali,
Elisabeth Shue,
Rashida Jones,
Scottie Thompson,
Hill Harper,
Matt Damon and
Tommy Lee Jones; film directors
Darren Aronofsky,
Mira Nair,
Whit Stillman, and
Terrence Malick; television executive
Brian Graden; architect
Philip Johnson; musicians
Rivers Cuomo,
Tom Morello, and
Gram Parsons; musician, producer and composer
Ryan Leslie; Facebook creator
Mark Zuckerberg; unabomber
Ted Kaczynski; programmer and activist
Richard Stallman; NFL quarterback
Ryan Fitzpatrick; and civil rights leader
W. E. B. Du Bois, Sachin H Jain.
Among its most famous current faculty members are biologist
E. O. Wilson, cognitive scientist
Steven Pinker, physicists
Lisa Randall and
Roy Glauber, chemists
Elias Corey,
Dudley R. Herschbach and
George M. Whitesides, Shakespeare scholar
Stephen Greenblatt, writer
Louis Menand, critic
Helen Vendler, historians
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and
Niall Ferguson, economists
Amartya Sen,
N. Gregory Mankiw,
Robert Barro,
Stephen A. Marglin,
Don M. Wilson III and
Martin Feldstein, political philosophers
Harvey Mansfield and
Michael Sandel, political scientists
Robert Putnam,
Joseph Nye, and
Stanley Hoffmann, scholar/composers
Robert Levin and
Bernard Rands.
Seventy-five
Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with the university. Since 1974, 19
Nobel Prize winners and 15 winners of the American literary award, the
Pulitzer Prize, have served on the Harvard faculty.
Professors Dr. Richard Alpert, later known as
Ram Dass, and Dr.
Timothy Leary were fired from Harvard in May 1963. Popular opinion attributes their discharge to their activism involving psychedelics, and the popularization and dispensation of
psilocybin to students.
[122]In fiction and popular culture
The perception of Harvard as a center of either elite achievement, or elitist privilege,
[citation needed] has made it a frequent literary backdrop.
In literature
- The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich is a narrative account of Facebook's founding set partially at Harvard
- Hacking Harvard is novel by Robin Wasserman, a Harvard University alumna.
- In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic novel, much of the action takes place in Cambridge, with vaguely recognizable Harvard landmarks occasionally making their way into the narrator's place descriptions.
- Erich Segal's Love Story (1970), which concerns a romance between a wealthy hockey player (Ryan O'Neal) and a brilliant Radcliffe student of modest means (Ali MacGraw),[123] is screened annually for incoming freshmen.[citation needed] Segal's The Class (1985) and Doctors (1988) are also set at Harvard.
- The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn, Jr., a 1970 novel adapted for a film and a television series.
- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, a 2009 bestselling novel by Katherine Howe, prominently features the university and several of its buildings .
- Prozac Nation is an autobiography by Harvard College graduate Elizabeth Wurtzel
- The Second Happiest Day (1953) by "John Phillips" (John P. Marquand, Jr.) depicts the Harvard of the World War II generation.
- The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, features Quentin Compson's experiences at Harvard.
- The Women's Room, by Marilyn French, largely features protagonist Mira's experiences at Harvard
- Pamela Thomas-Graham's series of mystery novels (Blue Blood, Orange Crushed, and A Darker Shade Of Crimson), protagonist Nikki Chase is an African-American Harvard economics professor.
- Cecilia Tan's romance novel series, commonly known as the "Magic University series" and including the books The Siren and the Sword and The Tower and the Tears, is set at the magical university hidden inside Harvard known as "Veritas".
Onscreen
Because Harvard generally forbids filming on its property, most scenes set at Harvard (especially indoor shots, but excepting aerial footage and shots of public areas such as Harvard Square) are in fact shot elsewhere.[124] See also
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