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Harvard 介绍-公务员考试 assuring its continued operation. The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a “university occurs in the new of 1780. During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869C1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliots reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels. Harvard has the financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $26 billion as of September 2009 学术机构 Harvard today has nine faculties, listed below in order of foundation: The (1920) The (1922) (1936) In 1999, the former Radcliffe College was reorganized as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In February 2007, the 1 / 6 Harvard formally approved the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to become the 14th School of Harvard (Harvard School of Engineering and ). 录取 Harvard College accepted 7% of applicants for the class of 2013, a record low for the schools entire history. The number of acceptances was lower for the class of 2013 partially because the university anticipated increased rates of enrollment after announcing a large increase in financial aid in 2008. For the class of 2011, Harvard accepted fewer than 9% of applicants, with a yield of 80%. Americas Best Colleges 2009 ranked Harvard #2 in selectivity (in a tie with Yale, Princeton and MIT, behind Caltech), and first in rank of the best national universities. 体育 Harvards athletic rivalry with Yale is intens