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Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university
located in Cambridge, Massachusetts of United States. It was established in
1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of
higher learning in the United States.
Eight U.S. presidents have been graduates, and 75 Nobel Laureates have been
student, faculty, or staff affiliates. Harvard is also the alma mater of
sixty-two living billionaires, the most in the country. The Harvard University
Library is the largest academic library in the United States, and one of the
largest in the world.
The Harvard Crimson competes in 41 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division
I Ivy League. Harvard has an intense athletic rivalry with Yale University
culminating in The Game. Every two years when the
Harvard and Yale Track and Field teams come together to compete against a
combined Oxford University and Cambridge University team, a competition that is
the oldest continuous international amateur competition in the world.
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