[00:03.26]Module 2 FAMOUS UNIVERSITIES
[00:08.24]Unit 2 It celebrated its 350th birthday in 1986
[00:18.02]1 Listen and read.
[00:22.44]Harvard University
[00:26.91]Harvard University is the oldest institution
[00:30.90]of higher learning in the Unitd States.
[00:35.22]It celebrated its 350th birthday in 1986.
[00:42.58]Since its birth hundreds of years ago,
[00:46.17]the university has grown from nine students
[00:50.40]with a single teacher to
[00:52.36]more than 18 000 degree candidates.
[00:56.43]Over 14 000 people work at Harvard,
[00:59.77]including more than
[01:01.07]2,000 teachers and professors.
[01:04.79]Seven presidents of the United States
[01:07.53]were graduates of Harvard,
[01:09.74]and it has produced 40 Nobel Prize winners.
[01:14.00]Harvard College was founded in 1636
[01:18.31]and was named for John Harvard,
[01:21.15]its first benefactor.
[01:23.76]John Harvard was a young priest who,
[01:26.96]upon his death in death in 1638,
[01:30.29]left his library and half his money
[01:33.07]to the new institution.
[01:35.59]Nowadays, Harvard is one of
[01:37.90]the richest universities in the world.
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