填空题 Harvard University is the oldest (1) of higher learning in the United States. The University has grown from 9 students with (2) to an enrollment of more than 18,000 degrees candidates. Over 14,000 people work at Harvard, including (3) 2,000 faculties.
Six presidents of the United States were graduates of Harvard. Its faculty (4) 34 Nobel Laureates.
Harvard College (5) 1636 and was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard of Charleston, a young minister who (6) in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the new institution.
During its early years, the College offered a classic (7) course based on the English University model but consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy of the first colonists. Although many of (8) became ministers in Puritan congregations throughout New England, the college never formally affiliated with a specific (9) denomination.
Under President Pusey, Harvard undertook what was then (10) fundraising campaign in the history of American higher education, the $82.5 million 'Program for Harvard College'; the program (11) , broadened student aid, created new professorships, and expanded Harvard's (12) . A similar but greatly expanded fundraising effort, the Harvard Campaign, was conducted (13) of Derek Bok and raised $356 million by the end of 1984.
Neil L. Rudenstine took office as Harvard's (14) in 1991. As part of an overall effort to (15) , Rudenstine set in motion an intensive process of University- wide academic planning, intended to identify some of Harvard's main (16) priorities.
Those have become an integral part of the current (17) . In addition, Rudenstine has stressed the University's commitment to excellence in (18) , the task of adapting the research university to an era of both rapid (19) and serious financial constraints, and the challenge of living together in a diverse community committed to (20) .