Harvard University

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Harvard University is an university located in Massachusetts, United States. It is the oldest and widely considered the best institution of higher education in the U.S. and one of the finest in the world. Harvard University was founded in 1636 and was named after John Harvard, a cleric and philanthropist. The current president of Harvard is Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian.

Harvard produced seven presidents of the United States. They are John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush, the current president who graduated from Harvard Business School.

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