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Harvard Library is the network of libraries and services at Harvard University, a private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Library is the oldest library system in the United States and both the largest academic library and largest private library in the world.
According to the History of Medicine Division of the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine, The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine is the "largest academic medical library in the world, and its collections, which have been formed over nearly two centuries, sometimes through the medical holdings of other libraries ...
Phineas Gage Skull of Phineas Gage. The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, [1] whose personal collection of 160 [2] unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens now forms the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-item collection. [3]
Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is an arm of Harvard University serving students, faculty, staff, retirees, and their dependents. At the beginning of the spring semester 2015, HUHS began restructuring services, closing their Stillman Infirmary to focus on other services. [ 1 ]
Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, which consists of faculty, staff, community members, as well as graduate students and undergraduates. Harvard University Choir, formally established in 1834 but in existence since the eighteenth century, which sings at Sunday services in the Memorial Church.
Primarily designed by José Luis Sert (then dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design) and completed in 1966, the Smith Campus Center is an H-shaped ten-story reinforced concrete building. Low-rise portions, including an underground parking garage , have a larger footprint of 360,000 square feet (33,000 m 2 ).
The Harvard Crimson, founded in 1873 and run entirely by Harvard undergraduate students, is the university's primary student newspaper. Many notable alumni have worked at the Crimson , including two U.S. presidents , Franklin D. Roosevelt (AB, 1903) and John F. Kennedy (AB 1940).
In 1968, in response to a petition signed by hundreds of medical students, the faculty established a commission on relations with the black community in Boston; at the time less than one percent of Harvard medical students were black. By 1973, the number of black students admitted had tripled, and by the next year, it had quadrupled. [14]