常春藤大学英文介绍
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常春藤盟校(Ivy League)指的是由美国东北部地区的八所大学组成的体育赛事联盟。它们 全部是美国一流名校、也是美国产生最多罗德奖学金得主的大学联盟。此外,建校时间长,八所学 校中的七所是在英国殖民时期建立的。 美国八所常春藤盟校都是私立大学,和公立大学一样,它们同时接受联邦政府资助和私人捐赠,用 于学术研究。由于美国公立大学享有联邦政府的巨额拨款,私立大学的财政支出和研究经费要低于 公立大学。 美国大学体育总会(NCAA)是由全美国千百所大专院校所参与结盟的一个协会。而若干所大学通 常结盟参与NCAA体育活动,例如美国著名的大学联盟还有以华盛顿大学和斯坦福大学为首的太平 洋十二校联盟(Pacific 12 Conference)和以密歇根大学和伊利诺伊大学为首的大十盟校(Big Ten Conference)。论体育比赛成绩,太平洋十二校联盟在美国所有大学联盟中最强,大十盟校第二, 常春藤联盟在体育比赛成绩上比较居中或靠后。 常春藤盟校(Ivy League)以体育结盟而起,但因为该联盟成员均具有一流的学术水准和教学质 量,所以享有很高的声誉。 联盟成员 常春藤(Ivy League)一词是指美国东北部八所大学体育联盟,包括:哈佛(Harvard)成立于 1636年,耶鲁(Yale)成立于1701年,宾夕法尼亚大学(Penn)成立于1740年,普林斯顿 (Princeton)成立于1746年,哥伦比亚(Columbia)成立于1754年,布朗(Brown)成立于1764 年,达特茅斯(Dartmouth)成立于1769年,康奈尔(Cornell)成立于1865年。这八所大学都是美 国一流大学,它们的历史悠久,治学严谨,教授水平高,学生质量好,因此常春藤大学有着优秀的 声誉。除了康奈尔大学是美国独立战争之后建立起来之外,其余7所ⅣY大学均建立于美国独立战争 之前。独立战争之前,美国有八所大学。它们其中七所加入了ⅣY联盟,只有威廉玛丽学院因为地 理位置和运营模式原因拒绝加入该联盟。
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comprehensive access over time to all of these materials.The University's traditional holdings of more than 15.8 million volumes are rooted in the 1638 bequest of 400 books from John Harvard. The core of the University's collections is found in Widener Library—which is under the aegis of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and is acknowledged to be the Universiarvard University, which celebrated its 350th anniversary in l986, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Founded l6 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the University has grown from 9 students with a single master to an enrollment of more than l8,000 degree candidates, including undergraduates, and students in 10 graduate and professional schools. An additional l3,000 students are enrolled in one or more courses at the Harvard Extension School. Over l4,000 people work at Harvard, including more than 2, 000 faculty There are more than 7,000 faculty appointments in afFlliated teaching hospitals. 哈佛大学于1986年庆祝建校三百五十周年,它是美回历史最悠久的高等学府。哈佛建立于第一批 欧洲移民踏上美洲大陆来到普利茅斯的十六年后,一开始它只有九名学生、一名硕士生。现在包括 在校本科生与其他学生在内共有一万八千多人,有十所研究院与专业学院,在哈佛的分校中,还有 一万三千名学生在哈佛分校选修了一门或多门课程,哈佛共有一万四千名工作人员,其中有两千多 名教职人员,在教学为目的的附属医院中还有七千多名教职员工。 Six presidents of the United States-John Adams, John Quincy Adams,Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, and John Fitzgerald Kennedywere graduates of Harvard. Its faculty have produced 34 NobeI Laureates. 哈佛产生了约翰· 亚当斯、约翰· 西· 昆 亚当斯、西奥多及富兰克林· 德来 诺· 罗斯福、罗斯福德· 海 B、· 斯和约翰· 弗斯杰罗涛· 肯尼迪六位美回总统,并产 生了三十四位诺贝尔奖获得者。 Harvard College was established in l636 by vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard of Charlestown, a young minister who upon his death in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the new institution. 哈佛大学建立于1636年,由当时的马塞诸塞湾殖民地选举产生。学校是以它的第一个捐赠者查里 斯顿郡的约翰· 哈佛命名的。约翰· 哈佛是一位年轻的牧师。1638年地去世的时候,将他的藏书以及 地产的一半捐赠给这所新建的学校。