Harvard University is the oldest university in the USA. The university is started in 1636 and it
got ist name two years later when John Harvard died and gave a library to the university.
Since then, the university has grown and Harvard has become one of the most famous universities in the world. Now people all over the world have heard about Harvard. Many
famous people have studies at Harvard, including the poet T.S. Eliot, the president Barack
Obama and the actress Natalie Portman. Many Harvard students have won Nobel Prizes.
Education at Harvard has changed a lot over its history. Charles Eliot, president of Harvard
from 1869-1909, made the biggest changes. For example, before Eliot was president,
Students didn't take entrance exams. Today, thousands of stedents want to study at Harvard but only about 10% of them pass the entrance exams.
Harvard is not all about education. Sport and culture are also very important. Twenty-first-century students worl hard and play hard.