Princeton
Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located
in Princeton, New Jersey. It is one of eight universities that belong to the
Ivy League.
Originally founded at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as
the College of New Jersey, it relocated to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed “Princeton
University” in 1896. Princeton was the fourth institution of higher education
in the U.S. to conduct classes. Princeton has never had any official religious
affiliation, rare among American universities of its age. At one time,
it had close ties to the Presbyterian Church, but today it is nonsectarian and
makes no religious demands on its students. The university has ties with the Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Westminster
Choir College of Rider University.
Harvard
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College)
is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of
the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Legislature, Harvard is the
oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, as well as the first
and oldest corporation in the Americas.
Initially referred to simply
as "the new college", the institution was named Harvard College on March
13, 1639, after its first principal donor, a young clergyman named John Harvard.
A graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in England, John Harvard bequeathed
about three hundred and fifty books in his will to form the basis of the college
library collection, along with half his personal wealth, £1,500, or seven hundred
and fifty pounds sterling. The earliest known official reference to Harvard
as a "university" rather than a "college" occurred in the new Massachusetts
Constitution of 1780.
Yale
Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded
in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher
education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Particularly
well-known are its undergraduate school, Yale College, and the Yale Law School,
each of which has produced a number of U.S. presidents and foreign heads of
state. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S.
school to award the Ph.D. degree. Also notable is the Yale School of Drama which
has produced many prominent Hollywood and Broadway actors, as well as the art,
divinity, forestry and environment, music, medical, management and architecture
schools, each of which is often cited as among the finest in its field.
Stanford
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or
simply Stanford, is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers)
southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest
of San Jose in Stanford, California, United States. Stanford is situated adjacent
to the city of Palo Alto, in Silicon Valley. It is one of the most widely
known and highly regarded universities in the United States and ranks highly in
numerous rankings.
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn is a private, coeducational
research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the
university, it is America's first university and is the fourth-oldest institution
of higher education in the United States. Penn is also a member of the Ivy
League and is one of the Colonial Colleges.
Duke University
Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational program that focused
as much on practical education for commerce and public service as on the
classics and theology. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow
a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities, concentrating
several "faculties" (e.g., theology, classics, medicine) into one institution.
Duke
University is a private coeducational research university located
in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day
town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In
1924, tobacco industrialist James B. Duke established The Duke Endowment, prompting
the institution to change its name in honor of his deceased father, Washington
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