The Mean of My Name

You Are Level-Headed and Trustworthy

You Are Level-Headed and Trustworthy
You are fair, honest, and logical. You are a natural leader, and people respect you.
You never give up, and you will succeed... even if it takes you a hundred tries.
You are rational enough to see every part of a problem. You are great at giving other people advice.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in.
You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising.
You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care.

You are influential and persuasive. You tend to have a lot of power over people.
Generally, you use your powers for good. You excel at solving other people's problems.
Occasionally, you do get a little selfish and persuade people to do things that are only in your interest.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.
You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.
Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs.

You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way.
And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life.
You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it.

You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong.
You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know.
You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do.

You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something.
You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense.
You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun.

You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily.
You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind.
A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.
Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.
Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life.
You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home.
You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble.

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BAB I
PENDAHULUAN

A. Latar Belakang
Bali adalah tempat berkembangnya agama Hindu dan Hampir seluruh Masyarakatnya menjadi penganutnya. Agama Hindu di Bali mulai tumbuh dan berkembang sejak abad ke – 8, bersamaan dengan pertumbuhan agama Hindu di Jawa Tengah, Agama Hindu banyak pengaruhnya terhadap kebudayaan setempat, juga terhadap sistem pemerintah
Berita Cina menyebutkan pada abad ke – 7 ada daerah Dwapatan (Bali) yang mempunyai adat yang sama dengan Jawa (Holing). Prsasti Bali 804 Caka (882 M) menyebutkan pemberian izin pembuatan pertapaan di bukit Kintamani. Prasasti berangka tahun 896 caka (991 M) isinya menyebutkan tempat suci dan istana Raja terletak di Singhamandawa dekat Sanur berhuruf Dewa Nagari dan Bali Kuno


Kitab Usana Bali abad ke 16 menyebutkan Raja Jayapangus memerintah setelah Raja Jayakusuma. Ia Raja penyelamat Bali yang terkena malapetakaa karena lupa menjalankan ibadah Raja ini juga mendapat wahyu untuk melakukan upacara agama kembali yang sekarangsebagai hari Galungan
Raja – Raja Bali:
a. Khesari Warmadewa yang beristana di Singhadwala menurunkan Wangsa Warmadewa
b. Ugrasena
c. Raja Haji Tabanendra Warmadewa ia di candikan di Air Mandu
d. Raja Jayasingha Wamadewa ia membangun pemandian di Desa Manukraya yaitu Pemandian Tirta Empul dekat tampak Siring tahun 960
e. Raja Jayasadhu Warmadewa
f. Sri MahaRaja Sri Wijaya Mahdewi (mungkin dari Sriwijaya)
g. Raja Udayana yang memerintah bersama istrinya yakni Gunapriyadarmapatni yang melahirkan Airlangga, Marakata, Anak wungsu
h. Marakata bergelar Marakata Utungga Dewa yang di segani rakyatnya, ia membangun bangunan suci di Gunung Kawi, Tampak Siring Bali
i. Anak Wungsu, mengaku penjelmaan Wisnu yang masa pemerintahannya di bantu 10 senopati rakyat hidup dari bertani, binatang yang berharga adalah Kuda. Untuk golongan pedagang laki – laki disebut Wanigrama dan untuk perempuan disebut Wanigrami
j. Raja Walaprabu
k. Raja Jayasakti, pada masa pemerintahanya ada dua kitab undang – undang yakni UU Utara Widdi Balawan dan Raja Wacana (Rajaniti)
l. Jayapangus yang dikenal penyelamat negara karena mengajak rakyatnya kemBali melakukan upacara agama sehingga mendapat wahyu (Hari Galungan)

B. Perumusan Masalah
Sistem pembagian Raja – Raja di Bali di dasarkan atas keturunan, biasanya pengganti Raja yang meninggal adalah putra laki – laki tua atau satu – satunya putra laki – laki yang lahir dari permaisuri yang berasal dari golongan bangsawan (Ksatria). Tetapi apabila putra mahkota pengganti Raja tersebut masih di bawah umur, biasanya diwakili oleh ibunya atau salah seorang bangsawannya yang di pilih pada penggawa pendanda istana
Dalam menjalankan pemerintahan, Raja dibantu oleh pejabat pemerintah yang masing – masing menduduki fungsi tertentu. Raja di dampingi oleh sebuah Dewan Kerajaan yang di sebut Pasamuan Agung. Tugas Pokok dari Pasamuan Agung adalah memberikan nasihat dan pertimbangan para Raja dalam memecahkan masalah – masalah yang berhubungan dengan pemerintahan. Selain itu mereka juga di tugasi untuk mengurus hubungan dengan penguasa di luar Kerajaan
Raja juga dibantu oleh patih, Prebekel atau Pambekel dan penggawa – penggawa daerah. Penggawa – penggawa ini kedudukanya sama dengan kepala distrik. Di Kerajaan Buleleng disebut Pembekel Gede yang kebanyak mempunyai darah keturunan maju dan bertempat tinggal di Puri
Masyarakat Bali hidup dari bercocok tanam, berternak dan berdagang, mereka menghiasi mayat yang telah meninggal dengan emas dan diberi harum – haruman. Orang Bali sebagian besar memeluk Hindu Waisanawa adapun ada sedikit pemeluk agama Budha. Karena agama Hindu di Bali Berkembang dengan pesat maka di juluki museum hidup
Di Bali di kenal beberapa susunan pejabat yang mengurusi masalah pengairan, mereka itu adalah:
a. Sedekah Gede / Sedahan Agung / Penyaringan Gede
b. Sedahan Tembuk yang bertugas mengawasi aliran air ke sawah – sawah dan menrima pajak dari para pemakai air
c. Klian Subak, yang bertugas langsung pengairan air ke sawah – sawah dan mengurus administrasinya
Kesulitan kesulitan para pemakai air di tampung setiap 35 hari sekali dan diadakan rapat. Rapat itu diadakan setiap hari Anggara Kasih atau Aelasa Kliwon
Pada abad ke – 8 di Bali berdiri sebuah Kerajaan yang berpusat di Singhamandawa yang diperintah oleh seorang Raja, yaitu Sri Ugrasena daerahnya kemungkinan SingaRaja sekarang. Sedangkan pada abad ke 10 Bali berada di bawah kekuasaan Jawa Timur dengan kebudayaan Jawa – Hindu, dan di Bali ini kebudayaanya tersebut berkembang dengan pesat. Pada tahun 982 M di Bali berkuasa seorang Ratu yang bernama Sri MahaRaja Wijaya Mahadewi yang memerintah dengan sistem pemerintahan di Jawa. Susunan dan nama – nama jabatan pemerintah yang biasa berlaku di Jawa di pergunakan di Bali
Setelah masa pemerintahan Sri MahaRaja berakhir, Bali kemudian diperintah oleh seorang Raja keturunan Bali, yaitu Dharma udayana Marwadewa, yang biasa di panggil Dharmodayana. Beliau memerintah bersama – sama dengan permaisurinya yaitu Gunapriya Dharmapatni, yang merupakan keluarga Raja Sindok. Pada tahun 1000 Dharmopatni melahirakan seorang putra yaitu Airlangga. Dalam menjalankan pemrintahanya, Dharma Udayana dan Dharmapatni selalu berbeda. Hal ini berakibat perginya Raja ke Jawa Timur dan menikah lagi dengan adik Raja Dharmawangsa, yaitu Mahendradatra. Kemudian Dharmaptni di buang ke hutan

C. Tujuan Penelitian
Ada beberapa tujuan diantaranya yaitu:
1. Sesuai dengan judulnya yaitu untuk memenuhi salah satu tugas guru mata pelajaran Sejarah
2. Untuk menambah nilai yang mungkin kurang dari target yang di tentukan
3. Melatih agar siswa siswi mampu melakukan suatu pekerjaan dengan gotong – royong atau belajar kelompok
Tujuan kami bukan hanya itu, kami bukan hanya nilai yang tinggi dan baik kamipun ingin dengan tugas – tugas yang di berikan kualitas belajar kami menjadi lebih baik

BAB II
PEMBAHASAN

Di Bali terdapat sejumlah Kerajaan yang mempunyai Raja dan pemerintahan sendiri, yaitu, Kerajaan Buleleng, Karang Asem, Klungkung, Gianjar, Badung Badung, Mangur dan lain – lain. Tetapi Raja – Raja Bali mengakui Raja Klungkung sebagai Raja tertinggi, disebabkan karena asal usul keturunan dan keturunan dan kedudukan Raja Klungkung sebagai Dewa Agung, tiap – tiap Kerajaan dalam wilayahnya masing – masing di kepalai oleh Raja baru Pamade atau keluarga dekat dari Raja. Misalnya Kerajaan Buleleng dibagi dalam wilayah – wilayah SingaRaja, tejakula dan Badung, sedangkan Kerajaan Badung terbagi menjadi tiga wilayah yaitu Denpasar, Pernade, dan Kasiman
Raja – Raja Bali memakai gelar Anak Agung. Raja – Raja Bali masing – masing bertempat tinggal di dalam istana (puri) bersama – sama keluarga dekat Raja. Di dalam puri ini banyak tersimpan benda – benda pusaka dan benda – benda untuk upacara keagamaan
Legenda mengenai Udayana dan Dharmapatani yang di baung ke hutan, kemudian mengembangkan ilmu sihir bersama – sama muridnya, ilmu sihir tersebut di dapat dari Dewi Durga yang ia puji. Kemudian Dharmapatni ini dikenal dengan nama Rangda dan sebagai ahli sihir, ia dipanggil dengan Calon Arang
Dharmapatni sangat sakit hati terhadap suaminya yang kawin lagi dengan menghukum ia kehutan. Kemarahan memuncak, karena putrinya Ratna Menggali yang cantik tidak ada yang melamar, karena para jejaka takut terhadap Calon Arang, yang menjadi sasaran kemarahan adalah Airlangga tidak dapat menghalangi ayahnya untuk kawin lagi
Kerajaan Airlangga hampir hancut akibat terjangkitnya penyakit menular yang tersebar di wilayah Kerajaannya. Dan wabah penyakit ini ditimbulakan oleh Rangda, ibunya sendiri, Airlangga meminta bantuan kepada pendeta sakti, yaitu Mpu Bharada melawan calon Arang. Calon Arang menjelma menjadi makhluk yang menakutkan dan Mpu Bharada menjelma menjadi makhluk ajaib yang di sebut Barong. Dalam perkelahian tersebut Barong menang dan Kerajaan Airlangga selamat dari bencana

BAB III
PENUTUP

A. Kesimpulan
Kerajaan Bali muncul pada abad ke 9 yang di perintah oleh Raja Sri Kesariwarmadewa, Udayana dan anak Wungsu. Tahun 915 Raja Bali Ugrasena berhasil membangun Kerajaan Bali dan berkembang dan serta menjalin persahabatan Mataram, dan di tandai perkawinana Udayana Wamadewa (956 – 1022) kawin dengan putrid Makutawangsa Whardana yang bernama Mahendratta, hubungan berlanjut setelah putra Udayana yang bernama Airlangga menikah dengan putrid Darmawangsa Tguh sampai akhirnya terjadi perlaya 1016. karena diserang oleh Raja wurawari dari wengker yang merupakan sekutu Sriwijaya
Pada masa pemerintahan anak Wungsu (1049 – 1077) berhasil dibangun Candi Tampak Siring. Pengganti Anak Wungsu, Jaya Sakti, Jayapangus dan Bedahulu adalah Raja lemah dan akhirnya ditaklukan oleh Gajah Mada dalam meluaskan Kerajaan Majapahit

DAFTAR PUSTAKA

- Bearsted, S.H. 1938 Geschichte Aegyptens. Grose Ilustierte Phaidon; Ausgate
- Ensiklopedia Nasional Indonesia. 1990, Jakarta; Cipta Adi Pustaka
- Wolters.O.W. 1967 Early Indonesian Commerse

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Me is Me, I will not change into the other people

The Embrace (Resensi)

The Embrace


____Vampires are created through a process called the Embrace. The Embrace is similar to normal vampiric feeding - the vampire drains her chosen prey of blood. However, upon complete exsanguination, the vampire returns a bit of her own immortal blood to the drained mortal. Only a tiny bit - a drop or two - is necessary to turn the mortal into an undead. This process can even be performed on a dead human, provided the body is still warm.
____Once the blood is returned, the mortal "awakens" and begins drinking of his own accord. But, though animate, the mortal is still dead; his heart does not beat, nor does he breathe. Over the next week or two, the mortal's body undergoes a series of subtle transformations; he learns to use the Blood in his body, and he is taught the special powers of his clan. He is now a vampire.
____Some vampire clans Embrace more casually than others, but the Embrace is almost never given lightly. After all, any new vampire is a potential competitor for food and power. A potential childe is often stalked for weeks or even years by a watchful sire, who greedily evaluates whether the mortal would indeed make a good addition to the clan and the line.

History

____Vampires - or Kindred, as they call themselves - exist for centuries and often seem unchanging to mortal eyes. Even Kindred society, however, has undergone evolution, upheaval and strife. Let us look at history as the Kindred view it, that we might better understand their actions tonight.

Caine and the First Nights

____According to Kindred myth, the first of their kind was Caine, the first murderer. For his crime, Caine was cursed by God and thereby transformed into a vampire. Exiled from his people, Caine was forced to stalk the fringes of civilization, fearful of the sun and ravenous for blood.
____In his loneliness, Caine came upon a mighty witch named Lilith, who had been Adam's first wife. Lilith taught Caine how to use his blood for mighty magic (indeed, a few heretics claim that Lilith, not Caine, was the First Vampire). Lilith taught Caine many things, including how to use his blood to evoke mystic powers - and how to create others of his kind.
The Second Generation and the First City
____At first Caine refused to beget, believing it wrong to curse the world with others of his kind. But eventually he grew lonely and brought three others into the vampiric fold. These three in turn begat 13 more, and these voracious monsters went among the early peoples of the world, carelessly feeding and using mortals as puppets in their sibling feuds. Caine, outraged by this behavior, forbade the creation of any more progeny. Gathering his childer and grandchilder to him, Caine built a great city - the First City in the world - and here vampires and mortals coexisted in peace.

The Antediluvians and the Clans

____It could not last. Caine's childer squabbled for their sire's affections, and once again the mortals were used as pawns in the feud. Finally the city was thrown down - some say a natural disaster was the cause; others, that a spurned childe's vengeful sorcery precipitated the cataclysm. Caine vanished into the wastes, never to be heard from again. The three vampires of the Second Generation likewise disappeared into the mists of legend. But Caine's 13 grandchilder, free from restraint, began breeding new vampires with abandon. The 13 vampires became known as Antediluvians, and their childer, created in their images, inherited the Antediluvians' magical gifts and curses. Thus were the clans formed.

The Dark Ages

____The clans spread across the world, sowing discord and misery. Though each successive generation of vampires proved weaker than the last, they made up for it with greater numbers. In the ziggurats of Babylon, in the palaces of Crete, in the tribunals of Rome, vampires ruled as shadowy tyrants, forever using mortals as food and unwitting soldiers. Vampire warred with vampire, clan with clan, and thus - from the ancient rivalries of the First City - was born the great Jyhad, which is still fought today.
____The Kindred reached their worst excesses during the early Middle Ages. During this period, many vampires ruled openly, smothering peasant and lord alike beneath their nocturnal grip. The vampiric population reached unhealthy numbers, and it seemed that the Earth would belong to the Kindred forever.

The Anarch Revolt

____Again, it could not last. The Children of Caine, in their hubris, began to flaunt their power flagrantly. Terrified peasants whispered of the monsters in their midst - and the Church began to listen. The reports of a few horrified priests spawned a frenzied Inquisition, and vengeful mortals rose up in a tide of fire and blood. Though individually much more powerful than mortals, even the mightiest vampires could not stand against the humans' sheer numbers; vampire after vampire was dragged from its lair and hurled into fire or sunlight.
____In the throes of the Inquisition, a current of revolt gripped the Children of Caine. Younger vampires, who were being deployed as sacrificial lambs by terrified elders, began to rise up against their sires and masters. In Eastern Europe, a group of vampires learned how to sever the mystic bonds through which sires controlled their childer. Soon all of Europe seethed beneath a nocturnal revolt, as rebellious childer threw off the yoke of their masters. Between the Inquisition and the revolt of the vampire "anarchs," it seemed as though the Kindred would not survive.
____And so, in the 15th century, a council was called. Seven of the 13 clans united in an organization called the Camarilla. With its advantage of numbers, the Camarilla suppressed the anarchs and agreed to exist behind a great Masquerade.
____Never more shall vampires rule openly, the lords of the Camarilla decreed. We shall hide among the mortals, and conceal our natures from our prey, and in a few decades the mortals will know vampires only as myths.
Thus, the Masquerade was born, and the Inquisition gradually forgot its original target. Those anarchs who would not join the Camarilla were driven into the wastes, from which they would later emerge as the dread Sabbat cult. With the discovery of the New World and the dawn of science, humanity gradually forgot about the Kindred, relegating them to the status of childhood legends.
____But, though hidden, vampires were still quite real. The wars of the Jyhad raged on, though the nights of open battle were replaced by sudden ambushes and maneuvering of human pawns. Weaving their webs throughout the ever-expanding cities, the Kindred eschewed their previous games for more methodical but no less deadly ones.

The Modern Nigahts and Gehenna

____And the wars continued down the centuries, and continue still. The Jyhad rages as it always has - though skyscrapers take the place of castles, machine-guns and missiles replace swords and torches, and stock portfolios substitute for vaults of gold, the game remains the same. Kindred battles Kindred, clan battles clan, Camarilla battles Sabbat, as they have for eons. Vampiric feuds begun during the nights of Charlemagne play themselves out on the streets of New York City; an insult whispered in the court of the Sun King may find itself answered by a corporate takeover in Sao Paolo. The ever-swelling cities provide countless opportunities for feeding, powermongering - and war.
____Increasingly, vampires speak of Gehenna - the long-prophesied night of apocalypse when the most ancient vampires, the mythical Antediluvians, will rise from their hidden lairs to devour all the younger vampires. This Gehenna, so the Kindred say, will presage the end of the world, as vampires and mortals alike are consumed in an inexorable tide of blood. Some vampires strive to prevent Gehenna, some fatalistically await it, and still others consider it a myth. Those who believe in Gehenna, however, say that the end time comes very soon - perhaps in a matter of years.

The Six Traditions

Camarilla vampires swear to uphold the legendary Six Traditions of Caine, the laws which Caine supposedly passed to his progeny. Like any other laws, the Traditions are commonly ignored, bent or violated outright.

The First Tradition:
The Masquerade
Thou shall not reveal thy nature to those not of the Blood. Doing so shall renounce thy claims of Blood.

The Second Tradition:
The Domain|
Thy domain is thine own concern. All others owe thee respect while in it. None may challenge thy word while in thy domain.

The Third Tradition:
The Progeny
Thou shall sire another only with the permission of thine elder. If thou createst another without thine elder's leave, both thee and thy progeny shall be slain.

The Fourth Tradition:
The Accounting
Those thou create are thine own childer. Until thy progeny shall be released, thou shall command them in all things. Their sins are thine to endure.

The Fifth Tradition:
Hospitality
Honor one another's domain. When thou comest to a foreign city, thou shall present thyself to the one who ruleth there. Without the word of acceptance, thou art nothing.

The Sixth Tradition:
Destruction
Thou art forbidden to destroy another of thy kind. The right of destruction belongeth only to thine elder. Only the eldest among thee shall call the blood hunt.

a little about anti matery

Pertama kali gue tau tentang adanya anti materi dari sebuah buku. Judul bukunya Angels and Demons karangan Dan Brown.
Suer tuh buku keren banget dah, emang karangan Dan Brrown gak ada ang gak keren.
Disitu tertulis tentang pencurian Anti Materi dari lab CERN di SWISS, petualangannya seru banget sampe bawa2 ke Roma.
Disitu tertulis besar dari kekuatan anti materi yang ternyata sangatlah luar biasa dahsyat.
Dengan ukuran yang sangat kecil bahkan tidak kasat mata, anti materi dapat dengan mudah meledak dengan kekuatan yang sangat dahsyat apabila tersentuh dengan udara luar.

Itu sedikit yang gue tau tentang anti materi. berikut ini pengetahuan lebih lanjut dari Anti Materi.


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Antimateri adalah materi yang terdiri dari antipartikel dari partikel yang menyusun materi biasa. Bila sebuah partikel dan antipartikelnya menyentuh satu sama lain, keduanya saling memusnahkan, artinya keduanya diubah menjadi partikel-partikel lain dengan energi yang sama menurut persamaan Einstein E=mc².

Antimateri tidak ditemukan secara alami di bumi, kecuali hanya dalam waktu sangat singkat dan dalam jumlah sangat sedikit (karena peluruhan radioaktif atau sinar kosmik).

FAKTA ANTIMATERI

- Antimateri adalah partikel dalam materi yang berlawanan dengan jumlah energi yang sama. Antimateri dari elektron adalah positron, dan antimateri dari proton adalah antiproton. - Antimateri tak tersedia di alam tapi terbentuk oleh peluruhan radioaktif. - Antimateri diteorikan Paul Dirac, fisikawan Inggris, pada 1928 dan ditemukan empat tahun kemudian oleh fisikawan Amerika Serikat, Carl Anderson. - Jika materi dan antimateri bertemu, keduanya akan meledak saling meniadakan. - Antimateri dipakai sebagai sinar laser pada mesin rontgen. Pada mesin ini, benturan positron dan elektron akan menghasilkan foton sinar Gamma (sinar X), yang akan ditangkap detektor. Pendeteksi meneruskannya ke komputer yang menghasilkan gambar pindai. - Efektivitas 1 antimateri = 4 proton - Sejak 1985, CERN memproduksi 10 nanogram antimateri berbiaya Rp 200 miliar per tahun. Jadi, untuk membuat 1 gram antimateri butuh Rp 10 juta triliun. - Membuat 1 gram antimateri perlu 100 juta tahun. - Dengan
rumus E=mc2, energi 1 gram antimateri = 42.800 ton bom TNT.


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The best One Month

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sekarang gue ngeblog cuma mau berbagi aja, hari ini Jum'at tanggal 14 Mei 2010 adalah hari yang paling seru, membahagiakan, and anything...

I'm sure that I love you
I will always love you
I will do anything for you if I can do
and then now today I promised to myself that I love you..

YOU ARE MY ONLY ONE



ini lirik lagu untuk kamu...

ONLY ONE
By, Yellowcard

Broken this fragile thing now
And I can't, I can't pick up the pieces
And I've thrown my words all around
But I can't, I can't give you a reason

I feel so broken up (so broken up)
And I give up (I give up)
I just want to tell you so you know

Here I go, scream my lungs out and try to get to you
You are my only one
I let go, but there's just no one that gets me like you
You are my only, my only one

Made my mistakes, let you down
And I can't, I can't hold on for too long
Ran my whole life in the ground
And I can't, I can't get up when you're gone

And something's breaking up (breaking up)
I feel like giving up (like giving up)
I won't walk out until you know

Here I go, scream my lungs out and try to get to you
You are my only one
I let go, but there's just no one that gets me like you
You are my only my only one

Here I go so dishonestly
Leave a note for you my only one
And I know you can see right through me
So let me go and you will find someone

Here I go, scream my lungs out and try to get to you
You are my only one
I let go, but there's just no one, no one like you
You are my only, my only one
My only one
My only one
My only one
You are my only, my only one


today is the best day for me and for you

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Harvard University




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Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Established in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature,[2] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units.[5] It was also the first corporation in the United States.[6]



Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639. It was named after John Harvard, a young clergyman from Southwark, Surrey, 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 (which was half of his estate), assuring its continued operation.[7] The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.

During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot's reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels.

Harvard has the second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $26 billion as of September 2009[citation needed]. Harvard is consistently ranked at the top as a leading academic institution in the world by numerous media and academic rankings.[8][9]


History
Colonial

In 1893, Baedeker's guidebook called Harvard "the oldest, richest, and most famous of American seats of learning.".[10] 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. The college was named in 1639 for its first benefactor, British-born John Harvard of Charlestown, a young minister who, upon his death in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the new institution. The charter creating the corporation of Harvard College was signed by Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley in 1650. In the early years, the College trained many Puritan ministers.[11]

During its early years, the College offered a classic academic course based on the English university model but consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy of the first colonists in New England. The College was never affiliated with any particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Puritan churches throughout New England.[12] An early brochure, published in 1643, justified the College's existence: "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery [sic] to the Churches…"[13] Harvard's early motto was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae "Truth for Christ and the Church." In a directive to its students, it laid out the purpose of all education: "Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the maine end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternall life, Joh. 17. 3. and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning.[14]



On June 11, 1685, Increase Mather became the Acting President of Harvard College. On July 23, 1686 he was appointed the Rector, and on June 27, 1682 he became the President of Harvard, a position which he held until September 6, 1701. The 1708 election of John Leverett, the first president who was not also a clergyman, marked a turning of the College toward intellectual independence from Puritanism.

In the 17th century, Harvard established the Indian College to educate Native Americans, but it was not a success and disappeared by 1693.[15]

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.[16]

In 1846, the natural history lectures of Louis Agassiz were acclaimed both in New York and on his 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.[17]

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.[18]


Elitism

Between 1830 and 1870 Harvard became "privatized".[19] While the Federalists controlled state government, Harvard had prospered, but the 1824 defeat of the federalist party in Massachusetts allowed the renascent Democratic-Republicans to block state funding of private universities. By 1870, the politicians and ministers that heretofore had made up the university's board of overseers had been replaced by Harvard alumni drawn from Boston's upper-class business and professional community and funded by private endowment.

During this period, Harvard experienced unparalleled growth that securely placed it financially in a league of its own among American colleges. Ronald Story notes that in 1850, Harvard's total assets were "five times that of Amherst and Williams combined, and three times that of Yale."[20] Story also notes that "all the evidence… points to the four decades from 1815 to 1855 as the era when parents, in Henry Adams's words, began 'sending their children to Harvard College for the sake of its social advantages'".[21] Under President Eliot's tenure, Harvard earned a reputation for being more liberal and democratic than either Princeton or Yale in regard to bigotry against Jews and other ethnic minorities.[22] In 1870, one year into Eliot's term, Richard Theodore Greener became the first African-American to graduate from Harvard College. Seven years later, Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court, graduated from Harvard Law School.

Nevertheless, Harvard became the bastion of a distinctly Protestant elite — the so-called Boston Brahmin class — and continued to be so well into the 20th century.[23]

20th century
Meritocracy

James Bryant Conant (president, 1933–1953) pledged to reinvigorate creative scholarship at Harvard and reestablish its preeminence among research institutions. Viewing higher education as a vehicle of opportunity for the talented rather than an entitlement for the wealthy, Conant devised programs to identify, recruit, and support talented youth. In 1943, Conant decided that Harvard's undergraduate curriculum needed to be revised so as to place more emphasis on general education. He called on 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.[24]

In the decades immediately after 1945 Harvard reformed its admissions policies as it sought students from a more diverse applicant pool. Whereas Harvard undergraduates had almost exclusively been upper-class alumni of select New England "feeder schools" such as Exeter, Hotchkiss and Andover, increasing numbers of international, minority, and working-class students had, by the late 1960s, altered the ethnic and socio-economic makeup of the college.[25]

During the twentieth 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.

Women

Nonetheless, Harvard's undergraduate population remained predominantly male, with about four men attending Harvard College for every woman studying at Radcliffe.[26] 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-war period. In 1999, Radcliffe College, founded in 1879 as the "Harvard Annex for Women",[27] merged formally with Harvard University, becoming the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Minorities

Though Harvard ended required chapel in the mid-1880s, the school remained culturally Protestant, and fears of dilution grew as enrollment of immigrants, Catholics and Jews surged at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1908, Catholics made up nine percent of the freshman class, and between 1906 and 1922, Jewish enrollment at Harvard increased from six to twenty percent. In June 1922, under President A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard announced a Jewish quota. Other universities had done this surreptitiously. Lowell did it in a forthright way, and positioned it as means of combating anti-Semitism, writing that "anti-Semitic feeling among the students is increasing, and it grows in proportion to the increase in the number of Jews… when… the number of Jews was small, the race antagonism was small also."[28] The social milieu of 1940s Harvard is presented in Myron Kaufmann's 1957 novel, Remember Me to God, which follows the life of a Jewish undergraduate as he attempts to navigate the shoals of casual anti-Semitism, be recognized as a "gentleman," and be accepted into "The Pudding."[29] Indeed, Harvard's discriminatory policies, both tacit and explicit, were partly responsible for the founding of Boston College in 1863[citation needed] and Brandeis University in nearby Waltham in 1948.[30]

Policies of exclusion were not limited to religious minorities. In 1920, "Harvard University maliciously persecuted and harassed" those it believed to be gay via a "Secret Court" led by President Lowell. Summoned at the behest of a wealthy alumnus, the inquisitions and expulsions carried out by this tribunal, in conjunction with the "vindictive tenacity of the university in ensuring that the stigmatization of the expelled students would persist throughout their productive lives" led to two suicides. Harvard President Lawrence Summers characterized the 1920 episode as "part of a past that we have rightly left behind", and "abhorrent and an affront to the values of our university".[31] Yet as late as the 1950s, Wilbur Bender, then the dean of admissions for Harvard College, was seeking better ways to "detect homosexual tendencies and serious psychiatric problems” in prospective students.[32]

Liberalism

Harvard and its affiliates, like most American universities, are considered to be politically liberal (left of center); Richard Nixon, for example, famously referred to it as the "Kremlin on the Charles" around 1970. Republicans remain a small minority of faculty, and the University has refused to officially recognize the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program — forcing students to commission through nearby MIT.[33]

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.[34] 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.[35][36]


Administration and organization
A faculty of about 2,110 professors, lecturers, and instructors serve as of school year 2008-09,[37] with 6,715 undergraduate and 12,424 graduate students.[38] 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.Harvard has a friendly rivalry with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which dates back to 1900, when a merger of the two schools was frequently discussed and at one point officially agreed upon (ultimately canceled by Massachusetts courts). Today, the two schools cooperate as much as they compete, with many joint conferences and programs, including the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, the Broad Institute, the Harvard-MIT Data Center and the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. In addition, students at the two schools can cross-register in undergraduate or graduate classes without any additional fees, for credits toward their own school's degrees.


Organizations
Governing bodies
Harvard is governed by two boards, one of which is the President and Fellows of Harvard College, also known as the Harvard Corporation and founded in 1650, and the other is the Harvard Board of Overseers. The President of Harvard University is the day-to-day administrator of Harvard and is appointed by and responsible to the Harvard Corporation. There are 16,000 staff and faculty.[39]

Faculties and schools
Harvard today has nine faculties, listed below in order of foundation:

* The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and its sub-faculty, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which together serve:
o Harvard College, the university's undergraduate portion (1636)
o The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (organized 1872)
o The Harvard Division of Continuing Education, including Harvard Summer School (1871) and Harvard Extension School (1910).
* The Harvard Medical School (1782)
* The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (1867).
* Harvard Divinity School (1816)
* Harvard Law School (1817)
* Harvard Business School (1908)
* The Graduate School of Design (1914)
* The Harvard Graduate School of Education (1920)
* The School of Public Health (1922)
* Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1936)

In 1999, the former Radcliffe College was reorganized as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Ina February 2007, the Harvard Corporation and Overseers formally approved the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to become the 14th School of Harvard (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences).[40][41]

Endowment

In 2005 Harvard received a large donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for the development of research programs in Islamic studies.[42][43] The acceptance by Harvard and other universities of this and comparable donations has drawn criticism from some commentators and accusations that the donations are used to spread pro-Saudi propaganda.[44][45]

In December 2008, Harvard announced that its endowment had lost 22% (approximately $8 billion) in the period July to October 2008, which would necessitate budget cuts.[46] Later reports[47] suggest the loss was actually more than double that figure, (Forbes[48] in March 2009 suggesting the loss might be in the range of $12 Billion) suggesting Harvard had lost nearly 50% of its endowment in the first four months alone. One of the most visible results of Harvard's trying to rebalance its budget is by halting[47] the construction of the $1.2 Billion Allston Science Complex that was scheduled to be complete by 2011, which has resulted in protests from local residents.

Campus

he main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in central Cambridge and extends into the surrounding Harvard Square neighborhood. The Harvard Business School and many of the university's athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located in the city of Boston's Allston neighborhood, which is situated on the other side of the Charles River from Harvard Square. The Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Harvard School of Public Health are located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston.

Harvard Yard itself contains the central administrative offices and main libraries of the university, academic buildings including Sever Hall and University Hall, Memorial Church, and the majority of the freshman dormitories. Sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduates live in twelve residential Houses, nine of which are south of Harvard Yard along or near the Charles River. The other three are located in a residential neighborhood half a mile northwest of the Yard at the Quadrangle (commonly referred to as the Quad), which formerly housed Radcliffe College students until Radcliffe merged its residential system with Harvard.

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]
Radcliffe Yard, formerly the center of the campus of Radcliffe College (and now home of the Radcliffe Institute), is adjacent to the Graduate School of Education and the Cambridge Common.

Satellite facilities

Apart from its major Cambridge/Allston and Longwood campuses, Harvard owns and operates Arnold Arboretum, in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston; the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, D.C.; the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts; and the Villa I Tatti research center ([12]) in Florence, Italy.

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.[50] 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,[51] since institutionalized as the Office for Sustainability (OFS).[52] 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.[53] Harvard was one of 26 schools to receive a grade of “A-” from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card 2010, the highest grade awarded.[54]

Academics

Harvard, along with other universities, has been accused of grade inflation.[61] A review of the SAT scores of entering students at Harvard over the past two decades shows that the rise in GPAs has been matched by a linear rise in both verbal and math SAT scores of entering students (even after correcting for the reforming of the test in the mid-1990s), suggesting that the quality of the student body and its motivation have also increased.[62] Harvard College reduced the number of students who receive Latin honors from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. Moreover, the prestigious 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.[63][64][65][66]

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.[67][68] The New York Times article also detailed that the problem was prevalent in some other Ivy League schools.

The 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings place Harvard in a first place tie with Princeton among "National Universities".[69] As of 2009, Harvard has been ranked first among world universities every time since the publications of the THES - QS World University Rankings[70] and the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Faculty and research

Prominent conservative and prominent liberal voices are among the faculty of the various schools, such as Martin Feldstein, Harvey Mansfield, Greg Mankiw, Baroness Shirley Williams, and Alan Dershowitz. Leftists like Michael Walzer and Stephen Thernstrom and libertarians such as Robert Nozick have in the past graced its faculty. Between 1964 and 2009, a total of 38 faculty and staff members affiliated with Harvard or its teaching hospitals were awarded Nobel Prizes (17 during the last quarter century).[71]

Research institutes and centers
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Research institutes

* Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
* Harvard Clinical Research Institute
* Harvard Institute of Economic Research
* Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
* Institute for Quantitative Social Science[72]
* Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (one of Harvard's 14 schools)
* Schepens Eye Research Institute
* W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research
Research centers attached to schools and departments

* Graduate School of Design:[73] Center for Alternative Futures, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Center for Technology & the Environment
* Harvard Law School:[74] Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, European Law Research Center, John M. Olin Center of Law, Economics and Business
* Department of Psychology: Prosopagnosia Research Centers at Harvard University and University College London[75]

Independent organizations affiliated to the university

* The Forsyth Institute

Admissions

Harvard College accepted 7% of applicants for the class of 2013, a record low for the school's entire history.[76] 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. For the class of 2011, Harvard accepted fewer than 9% of applicants, with a yield of 80%. US News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2009" ranked Harvard #2 in selectivity (in a tie with Yale, Princeton and MIT, behind Caltech), and first in rank of the best national universities.[77]

US News and World Report listed 2006 admissions percentages of 14.3% for the school of business, 4.5% for public health, 12.5% for engineering, 11.3% for law, 14.6% for education, and 4.9% for medicine.[78] In 2005, only 8.9% of a record of over 22000 applicants were accepted — making it the most competitive year in history.[79] Only the London School of Economics has a higher selectivity for courses in the world.[80] In September 2006, Harvard College announced that it would eliminate its early admissions program as of 2007, which university officials argued would lower the disadvantage that low-income and under-represented minority applicants are faced within the competition to get into selective universities.[81]

The undergraduate admissions office's preference for children of alumni policies have been the subject of scrutiny and debate.[82] Under new financial aid guidelines, 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.[83]

Library system and museums

The Harvard University Library System is centered in Widener Library in Harvard Yard and comprises over 80 individual libraries and over 15 million volumes.[84] According to the American Library Association, this makes it the largest academic library in the United States, and the second largest library in the country (after the Library of Congress).[85] Harvard describes its library as the "largest academic library in the world".[86]

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;[87] 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.


Harvard operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums:

* The Harvard Art Museums, including:
o The Fogg Museum of Art, with galleries featuring history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Particular strengths are in Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and 19th century French art
o The Busch-Reisinger Museum, formerly the Germanic Museum, covers central and northern European art.
o The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which includes ancient, Asian, Islamic and later Indian art
* The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, specializing in the cultural history and civilizations of the Western Hemisphere
* The Semitic Museum.
* The Harvard Museum of Natural History complex, including:
o The Harvard University Herbaria, which contains the famous Blaschka Glass Flowers exhibit
o The Museum of Comparative Zoology
o The Harvard Mineralogical Museum
* The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Le Corbusier, is home to the University's film archive and the department of Visual and Environmental Studies.


Student activities

In 2005, The Boston Globe reported obtaining a 21-page Harvard internal memorandum that expressed concern about undergraduate student satisfaction based on a 2002 Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) survey of 31 top universities.[88] The Globe presented COFHE survey results and quotes from Harvard students that suggest problems with faculty availability, quality of instruction, quality of advising, social life on campus, and sense of community dating back to at least 1994. The magazine section of the Harvard Crimson echoed similar academic and social criticisms.[89][90] The Harvard Crimson quoted Harvard College Dean Benedict Gross as being aware of and committed to improving the issues raised by the COFHE survey.[91]

A longer list of Harvard student groups can be found under Harvard College.

* The Harvard Crimson is the oldest continuously published college newspaper in America. Founded in 1873, it counts among its many editors numerous Pulitzer Prize winners and two U.S. Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* The Harvard University Band (founded 1919) is a non-traditional, student-run marching band, notable for being a scramble band. The Harvard Wind Ensemble, the Harvard Summer Pops Band, and the Harvard Jazz Bands also fall under the umbrella organization of HUB.
* The Harvard International Relations Council includes several famous student organizations, including the Harvard International Review, Harvard Model United Nations, and its Harvard National Model United Nations. The HIR has 35,000 readers in more than 70 countries, regularly features prominent scholars and policymakers from around the globe. HMUN is the oldest high-school-level Model United Nations simulation in the world, having begun as a League of Nations simulation in the 1920s. HNMUN is similarly the longest-running college-level simulation in the world and among the largest in the United States. The IRC has the most members of any Harvard student organization.
* The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor organization and publication founded in 1876. It has a long-standing rivalry with The Crimson and counts among its former members Robert Benchley, John Updike, George Plimpton, Steve O'Donnell, Conan O'Brien, Mark O'Donnell, and Andy Borowitz. This sporadically issued rag was originally modelled on the British magazine of satire, Punch, and has now outlived it, becoming the world's second-oldest humor magazine after the Yale Record. Conan O'Brien was president of the Lampoon during his last two undergraduate years. (The National Lampoon was founded as an offshoot in 1970 from the Harvard publication.)

* The Harvard Advocate (founded 1866) is the nation's oldest college literary magazine. Past members include Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Eliot, and Mary Jo Salter.
* The Harvard Salient [13] is the campus's biweekly conservative magazine, whose past editors include many prominent conservative thinkers and journalists.
* The Harvard Glee Club (founded 1858) is the oldest college choir in the country; the Harvard University Choir is the oldest university-affiliated choir in the country; and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (founded 1808), technically older than the New York Philharmonic, though it has only been a symphony orchestra for about half of its existence. The Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard University is a chamber orchestra that is staffed, managed, and conducted entirely by students.
* The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (founded 1844) is a theatrical society known for its burlesque musicals and annual "Man of the Year" and "Woman of the Year" ceremonies; past members include Alan Jay Lerner, Jack Lemmon, and John Lithgow.
* WHRB (95.3 FM Cambridge), the campus radio station, is run exclusively by Harvard students out of the basement of Pennypacker Hall, a freshman dorm. Known throughout the Boston metropolitan area for its classical, jazz, underground rock and hip-hop, and blues programming, especially its reading period "orgies", when the entire oeuvre of a particular composer, orchestra, band, or artist is played without commercial break, sometimes for several days in succession, to give the station's DJs a chance to catch up on their studies before the semester's final exams.
* The Harvard Institute of Politics is a living memorial to President Kennedy that promotes public service among undergraduates by sponsoring non-credit courses and workshops and internships in the public sector.
* The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA)[92] is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization serves as the umbrella organization for dozens of community service and social change programs at Harvard. PBHA has 1600 volunteers who serve over 10,000 people in the greater Boston area. Notable alumni include Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Roger Nash Baldwin, Robert Coles, and David Souter.
* Harvard Student Agencies[93] is the largest student-run corporation in the world, with revenues of $6 million in 2006.[94] Notable alumni include Thomas Stemberg, founder of Staples, Inc. and Michael Cohrs, a Board Member at Deutsche Bank in London.
* Harvard Model Congress is the nation's oldest and largest congressional simulation conference, providing thousands of high school students from across the U.S. and abroad with the opportunity to experience participatory American democracy first-hand.
* The Harvard Ichthus is the college's first journal of Christian thought, inspiring the founding of over 20 such journals throughout the Northeast through the Augustine Project.[95] It has featured contributions by students as well as notable theologians such as Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Stanley Hauerwas, Glen Stassen, and Fr. Richard Schall.
* The Harvard Chess Club is one of the oldest collegiate chess clubs in the country, founded in 1874.[96] An annual match versus Yale on the morning of the Harvard-Yale football has taken place since 1906.[97] Harvard has won several intercollegiate national chess championships, with alumni including International Grandmaster and two-time United States Champion Patrick Wolff.
* Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society is a cooperative bookstore that includes undergraduates on its board of directors.
* The Harvard Wireless Club is the nation's oldest amateur radio club founded in 1909. Their radio station call sign is W1AF. "Professor George W. Pierce was the first president, and Nikola Tesla, Thomas A. Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Greenleaf W. Pickard and R. A. Fessenden were honorary members."[98]


Alumni
See also: List of Harvard University people and Notable non-graduate alumni of Harvard

Among the best-known graduates of Harvard University are American political leaders John Hancock, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama; Canadian Prime Ministers Mackenzie King, Pierre Trudeau and politician Michael Ignatieff; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, Religious Leader, Businessman & Philanthropist Aga Khan IV; American Philanthropist Huntington Hartford, Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, Mexican President Felipe Calderón;[99] current UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; philosopher Henry David Thoreau and authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and William S. Burroughs; educator Harlan Hanson; poets Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings; composer Leonard Bernstein; cellist Yo Yo Ma; comedian and television show host and writer Conan O'Brien, actors Jack Lemmon, Natalie Portman, Mira Sorvino, Elisabeth Shue, Rashida Jones and Tommy Lee Jones, film directors Darren Aronofsky, Nelson Antonio Denis, Mira Nair and Terrence Malick, architect Philip Johnson, Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello, Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo, musician/producer/composer Ryan Leslie, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, programmer and activist Richard Stallman and civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois.

Among its most famous current faculty members are biologist E. O. Wilson, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, physicists Lisa Randall and Roy Glauber, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt, writer Louis Menand, critic Helen Vendler, historian 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, Stanley Hoffman and the late Richard E. Neustadt, 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.

Athletics

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, CT, 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.[100]

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.[101][102]

Older than The Game by 23 years, the Harvard-Yale Regatta was the original source of the athletic rivalry between the two schools. It is held annually in June on the Thames river in eastern Connecticut. The Harvard crew is typically considered to be one of the top teams in the country in rowing. Today, Harvard fields top teams in several other sports, such as ice hockey (with a strong rivalry against Cornell), squash, and even recently won NCAA titles in Men's and Women's Fencing. Harvard also won the Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships in 2003.

Harvard's mens' 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.


Song

Harvard has several fight songs, the most played of which, especially at football, are "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" and "Harvardiana." While "Fair Harvard" is actually the alma mater, "Ten Thousand Men" is better known outside the university. The Harvard University Band performs these fight songs, and other cheers, at football and hockey games.

Harvard in fiction and popular culture

Harvard's central place in American elite circles has made it the setting for many novels, plays, films and other cultural works.

"The Second Happiest Day" by "John Phillips" (John P. Marquand, Jr.) depicts the Harvard of the generation of World War II.

Love Story, by Harvard alumnus (and Yale classics professor) Erich Segal, 1970, concerns a romance between a wealthy Harvard pre-law hockey player (Ryan O'Neal) and a brilliant Radcliffe student of musicology on scholarship (Ali MacGraw). Both novel and movie are deeply infused with Cambridge color.[103] One enduring Harvard tradition in recent years has been the annual screening of Love Story to incoming freshmen, during which members of the Crimson Key Society, the tour-giving organization on campus, make catcalls and other offerings of mock abuse. Other works of Erich Segal, The Class (1985) and Doctors (1988) also featured the leading characters as Harvard students.

Harvard has been featured in many U.S. film and television productions, including Stealing Harvard, Legally Blonde, Gilmore Girls, Queer as Folk, The Firm, The Paper Chase, Good Will Hunting, With Honors, How High,Sugar and Spice, Soul Man, 21 (2008 film), Harvard Man. Since the filming of Love Story in the 1960s the university, until the summer of 2007 filming of The Great Debaters did not allow any movies to be filmed in campus buildings; most films are shot in look-alike cities, such as Toronto, and colleges such as UCLA, Wheaton and Bridgewater State, although outdoor and aerial shots of Harvard's Cambridge campus are often used.[104] The graduation scene from With Honors was filmed in front of Foellinger Auditorium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Numerous novels are set at Harvard or feature characters with Harvard connections. Robert Langdon, the main character in Dan Brown's novels The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, is described as a Harvard "professor of symbology", (although "symbology" is not the name of an actual academic discipline).[105] The protagonist of Pamela Thomas-Graham's series of mystery novels (Blue Blood, Orange Crushed, and A Darker Shade Of Crimson) is an African-American Harvard professor. Prominent novels with Harvard students as protagonists include William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation. Douglas Preston's ex-CIA agent Wyman Ford is a Harvard alumnus. Ford appears in the novels Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy. Much of the action in Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic novel The Handmaid's Tale takes place in Cambridge, with vaguely-recognizable Harvard landmarks occasionally making their way into the narrator's place descriptions. 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."

Also set at Harvard is the Korean hit TV series Love Story in Harvard,[106] filmed at University of Southern California. American television's fictional Harvard graduates include Sex and the City character Miranda Hobbes; Gilligan's Island's resident aristocrat Thurston Howell, III, played by Jim Backus; M*A*S*H's pompous Boston Brahmin, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School), played by David Ogden Stiers; Dr. Frasier Crane of Cheers and Frasier; and fictional Harvard Law graduates Ben Matlock of Matlock and Ally McBeal of the eponymous series. Ivory Tower is a student-produced Harvard Undergraduate Television show[107] about fictional Harvard students.

The university was prominently featured in the 2008 television series pilot for Fringe and in the television program Gossip Girl during the second series. The university and several of its buildings are featured prominently in the 2009 bestselling novel The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe.

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.[108]

Mariah Carey in her 2009 song “Up Out My Face” sings: "Even the Harvard University graduating class of 2010 couldn't put us back together again."[109]

The 1948 Dr Seuss book Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose remarks on "Harvard Club Wall".[citation needed]




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