Harvard

[ hahr-verd ]

/ ˈhɑr vərd /

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noun

John, 1607–38, English clergyman in the U.S.: principal benefactor of Harvard College, now Harvard University.

a city in central Massachusetts.

Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,420 feet (4,398 meters).

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How to use Harvard in a sentence

An earlier Harvard study found that the cost of developing and flying a fleet of specialized planes to do the job would cost as little as $2 billion a year, putting it within the economic reach of many countries.
A first-of-its-kind geoengineering experiment is about to take its first step|Emily Luong|February 19, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Harvard researchers found only a small decline in the quality of friendships and relationships in the pandemic, a trend they expect to continue.
It’s Complicated: Love and Sex in 2021|Daniel Malloy|February 14, 2021|Ozy
This is what Harvard scholar Randall Kennedy calls a “negative good” in his groundbreaking work, “Race, Crime, and the Law.”
A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat|Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
We should be celebrating community colleges as much as Harvard, since community colleges do the hard, democratic work of educating many more students than exclusive, expensive universities.
What Amanda Gorman Teaches Us About Our Shared America|Viet Thanh Nguyen|February 12, 2021|Time

Last month, the Swedish Space Corporation agreed to help the Harvard team launch a balloon near an Arctic town in Sweden called Kiruna.
Scientists Want to Fight Climate Change by Blocking the Sun With Dust|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|January 28, 2021|Singularity Hub
“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
HONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.
China’s Internet Is Freer Than You Think|Brendon Hong|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A Harvard-educated poet and professor, Linsker was arrested early Sunday morning and released without bail later that day.
The High-Priced Union Rep Charged With Attacking a Cop|Jacob Siegel|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tom Cotton credits Harvard as the place where he “discovered political philosophy as a way of life.”
Harvard’s Conservative Cabal Takes Congress|Patricia Murphy|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So why does the ‘Harvard of North Korea’ have a new website?
North Korea's Top College: Brainwash U|Justin Rohrlich|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
John Thornton Kirkland, president of Harvard university, died, aged 70.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The formula for the date of its foundation in 1636 may be thus expressed—Harvard College founded; the chum age .
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The one given in the present volume is a photographic facsimile of the Harvard original.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Edward Holyoke, president of Harvard college, died; an excellent mathematician and natural philosopher.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell