Harvard

[ hahr-verd ]

noun

1. John, 1607–38, English clergyman in the U.S.: principal benefactor of Harvard College, now Harvard University.
2. a city in central Massachusetts.
3. Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,420 feet (4,398 meters).

Example Sentences

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.

From 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.

From Ozy

This is what Harvard scholar Randall Kennedy calls a “negative good” in his groundbreaking work, “Race, Crime, and the Law.”

From 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.

From Time

Last month, the Swedish Space Corporation agreed to help the Harvard team launch a balloon near an Arctic town in Sweden called Kiruna.

From Singularity Hub 

“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.

From The 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.

From The Daily Beast

A Harvard-educated poet and professor, Linsker was arrested early Sunday morning and released without bail later that day.

From The Daily Beast

Tom Cotton credits Harvard as the place where he “discovered political philosophy as a way of life.”

From The Daily Beast

So why does the ‘Harvard of North Korea’ have a new website?

From The Daily Beast

He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.

From Project Gutenberg

John Thornton Kirkland, president of Harvard university, died, aged 70.

From Project Gutenberg

The formula for the date of its foundation in 1636 may be thus expressed—Harvard College founded; the chum age .

From Project Gutenberg

The one given in the present volume is a photographic facsimile of the Harvard original.

From Project Gutenberg

Edward Holyoke, president of Harvard college, died; an excellent mathematician and natural philosopher.

From Project Gutenberg