HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S HISTORY

History

Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was named after the College’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution. A statue of John Harvard stands today in front of University Hall in Harvard Yard, and is perhaps the University’s best known landmark.
Harvard University has 12 degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The University has grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than 20,000 degree candidates including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. There are more than 360,000 living alumni in the U.S. and over 190 other countries.

Harvard University Archives

The Harvard University Archives are maintained by the Harvard University Library system and are a great resource to access Harvard’s historical records.

The Harvard Shield

On Sept. 8, 1836, at Harvard’s Bicentennial celebration, it was announced that President Josiah Quincy had found the first rough sketch of the College arms – a shield with the Latin motto “VERITAS” (“Verity” or “Truth”) on three books – while researching his History of Harvard University in the College Archives. During the Bicentennial, a white banner atop a large tent in the Yard publicly displayed this design for the first time. Until Quincy’s discovery, the hand-drawn sketch (from records of an Overseers meeting on Jan. 6, 1644) had been filed away and forgotten. It became the basis of the seal officially adopted by the Corporation in 1843 and still informs the version used today. *

Why Crimson?*

Crimson was officially designated as Harvard’s color by a vote of the Harvard Corporation in 1910. But why crimson? A pair of rowers, Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, and Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Class of 1858, provided crimson scarves to their teammates so that spectators could differentiate Harvard’s crew team from other teams during a regatta in 1858. Eliot became Harvard’s 21st president in 1869 and served until 1909; the Corporation vote to make the color of Eliot’s bandannas the official color came soon after he stepped down.
But before the official vote by the Harvard Corporation, students’ color of choice had at one point wavered between crimson and magenta – probably because the idea of using colors to represent universities was still new in the latter part of the 19th century. Pushed by popular debate to decide, Harvard undergraduates held a plebiscite on May 6, 1875, on the University’s color, and crimson won by a wide margin. The student newspaper – which had been called The Magenta – changed its name with the very next issue.

*U.S. Presidents and Honorary Degrees*

After George Washington’s Continental Army forced the British to leave Boston in March 1776, the Harvard Corporation and Overseers voted on April 3, 1776, to confer an honorary degree upon the general, who accepted it that very day (probably at his Cambridge headquarters in Craigie House). Washington next visited Harvard in 1789, as the first U.S. president.
Other U.S. presidents to receive an honorary degree include:
1781  John Adams
1787  Thomas Jefferson
1822  John Quincy Adams
1833  Andrew Jackson
1872  Ulysses S. Grant
1905  William Howard Taft
1907  Woodrow Wilson
1917  Herbert Hoover
1919  Theodore Roosevelt
1929  Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1946  Dwight Eisenhower
1956  John F. Kennedy

STANFORD UNIVERSITY HISTORY

In 1876, former California Governor Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his famous Palo Alto Stock Farm. He later bought adjoining properties totaling more than 8,000 acres.

The little town that was beginning to emerge near the land took the name Palo Alto (tall tree) after a giant California redwood on the bank of San Francisquito Creek. The tree itself is still there and would later become the university's symbol and centerpiece of its official seal.
Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the railroads. He was a leader of the Republican Party, governor of California and later a U.S. senator. He and Jane had one son, who died of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Italy. Leland Jr. was just 15. Within weeks of his death, the Stanfords decided that, because they no longer could do anything for their own child, "the children of California shall be our children." They quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.
The Stanfords considered several possibilities – a university, a technical school, a museum. While on the East Coast, they visited Harvard, MIT, Cornell and Johns Hopkins to seek advice on starting a new university in California. Ultimately, they decided to establish two institutions in Leland Junior's name - the University and a museum. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing "cultured and useful citizens."
On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The prediction of a New York newspaper that Stanford professors would "lecture in marble halls to empty benches" was quickly disproved. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, and the original faculty of 15 was expanded to 49 for the second year. The university’s first president was David Starr Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who left his post as president of Indiana University to join the adventure out West.
The Stanfords engaged Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed landscape architect who created New York’s Central Park, to design the physical plan for the university. The collaboration was contentious, but finally resulted in an organization of quadrangles on an east-west axis. Today, as Stanford continues to expand, the university’s architects attempt to respect those original university plans.

BRITISH COLLEGE IN NEPAL

      

The British College provides international recognized qualifications in Nepal, hence the student obtain the British University excellence in Nepal. The British College is one of the few Internationally affiliated college in Nepal with the facilities of student exchange programmes and internships with multi-national companies worldwide. The college is staffed by Tutors and administrated personnel from UK and Nepal and hence student can get an international University degree in Nepal with comfort and less cost. The college is managed and operated by the British Government providing an opportunities for student with quality and sound learning experience.
The college currently offers following programmes in different faculty.
Business Courses

• TBC Foundation Programme (Business pathway)
• Bachelor of Business Administration 
• BA (Hons) Business and Management
• TBC Pre Master Programme (Business and Management pathway)
• MBA Executive Programme
• Master in International Management

Information Technology Courses

• TBC Foundation Programme (IT pathway)
• BSc (Hons) Computing
• TBC Pre Master Programme (IT pathway)
• Master in Information Management

Other Courses

• ACCA Professional COACHING classes
• IELTS Preparatory Courses
• Cambridge Business English Certificate (BEC)

NEPALGUNJ MEDICAL COLLEGE

“Excellence in Medical Education” is the motto of NMGC. The College has sufficient human resources and facilities of most sophisticated equipment and a galaxy of well qualified professionals in every department. Seminars, Conferences and guest lectures by eminent professionals are regularly held. NMGC meets the standard and therefore is recognized by NMC ( Nepal Medical Council ) as well as medical councils of countries like India, Sri Lanka and other SAARC regions.
Lord Buddha Educational Academy Ltd (LBEA) came to existence with the objective of developing the nation by providing excellent healthcare facilities. Soon a group of renowned entrepreneurs, medical professionals, educationists and social activists joined hands to form the Nepalgunj Medical College.

The College started its MBBS in 1997 followed by Nursing Program in 2000 and Post Graduate in 2007.

NOBEL MEDICAL COLLEGE

           Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital (P) Ltd., an affiliate to Kathmandu University, was founded in 2007. The college is located in Biratnagar, one of the major academic hubs of eastern part of Nepal. It’s key objective to impart international standard medical education to the meritorious students of Nepal and abroad enrolled for both medical and paramedical courses.
Nobel Medical College, recognized by the Nepal Medical Council (NMC), has constantly maintained its academic standards at par with the requirements of other Medical Councils and Universities across the globe.
       
It’s internationally renowned faculties are dedicated to bolster the image of the college in national and international arena. With the contribution of such faculties, they are successfully listed in the International Medical Education Directory (IMED).

The Hospital presently has 900 beds of its own at full function. It serves the patients from various communities of Nepal and adjoining districts of India. It has already started Super Specialty Services with eminent super specialized doctors. The hospital is expected to expand its bed strength up to 2000 by 2015.

EDUCATION IN NEPAL

        Education in Nepal is structured as school education and higher education. School education includes primary level of grades 1-5, lower secondary and secondary levels of grades 6-8 and 9-10 respectively. Pre-primary level of education is also available in certain areas. Six years of age is the prescribed age for admission into grade one. A national level School Leaving Certificate (SLC) Examination is conducted at the end of grade ten. Grades 11 and 12 are considered as higher secondary level. Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) supervises higher secondary schools which are mostly under private management. Previously these grades were under the university system and were run as proficiency certificate level. Though some universities still offer these programs, the policy now is to integrate these grades into the school system. Higher education consists of bachelor, masters and PhD levels. Depending upon the stream and subject, bachelor’s level may be of three to five years’ duration. The duration of master’s level is generally of two years. Some universities also offer programs like M Phil and post-graduate diploma. Legally, there are two types of school in the country: community and institutional. Community schools receive regular government grant whereas institutional schools are funded by school’s own or other non-governmental sources. Institutional schools are organized either as a non-profit trust or as a company. However, in practical terms, schools are mainly of two types: public (community) and private (institutional). A third type of school is the schools run by the local people enthusiastic towards having a school in their localities. They do not receive regular government grants and most of them do not have any other sustainable financial source. Supported and managed by the local people, they can be thus identified as the real community schools. Except one, all universities/academies are publicly managed and are supported by public source fund. However, public universities also provide affiliation to private colleges. Two academies of higher education are single college institutes whereas other universities have constituent and affiliated colleges across the country.

WHAT IS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY?

What is Information Technology?

Information Technology deals with all the aspects of communicating information and its technology. It is also called IT and is the study, research, implementation, development, and management of all computer-based information systems as applicable to the software and hardware of the computer. Information technology engineering is all about storage, conversion, transmission, processing and recovery of all the kinds of information using electronic computers.

How to be engineer in Information Technology

To be an engineer in IT, you should earn a B.E. or B. Tech. degree in IT engineering from a reputed university. You can also earn a diploma in IT as well. To enroll in a reputed college you have to appear for the entrance exam that is conducted by various boards on national and state level in the country.

One can further continue studies to earn a master's degree in IT.

Qualification

To be able to enroll in a reputed college, you have to pass 12th class with 50% aggregate marks and have physics, chemistry and math as the mandatory subjects. After this, you will have to appear for the entrance exam and upon scoring the needed marks, you will be allotted a seat in the college. If you want to pursue diploma, then you have to pass 10th class with 50% aggregate marks.

Academic program

B.E. or B.Tech. is a four-year program that comprises eight semesters, while the diploma is of six semesters. Further education for the master's degree will take two more years after graduation, that is, four more semesters. Some of the specialized fields in information technology courses include Computer Science, Databases and Information Systems, Networking and Communication, Software Engineering, Embedded systems, Geographic Information Science (GIS), and IT and Society.

Colleges

You can find many colleges at the state level and national level as well. Every candidate has to appear in an entrance exam for even the state level colleges or the national level colleges. The IIT colleges conduct their own entrance exam. Apart from the IITs, a few other prominent engineering colleges that offer courses in Information technology include various NITs, IIITs, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Nirma University - Institute of Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) and Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology.

Scope and career in Information Technology

There are lots of opportunities for graduates in IT. Companies that are in software and hardware development, application and testing employ professionals in IT.

The IT industry today is flourishing and one can find a wide range of opportunities in India and abroad. As the IT engineers are involved in various specializations and solutions, there are plenty of sectors where one can find jobs. They can work as software engineer, hardware engineer or programmers in e-commerce, web development, telecommunications, aerospace and automotive sector, computer networking, and more.

Those in the IT sector can work in IT giants like Google, Infosys, Adobe, Microsoft, TCS, Mahindra-Satyam, Tata Elixi, BHEL, Unisys, BSNL, VSNL, Cisco systems, Airtel, Alcatel, Siemens, BEL, Accenture, Sasken Communication, Robert Bosch, and many more.

One can go in for research or join the private/public industries, government departments, commercial organizations, and also, the manufacturing sector. This is the only sector where one can see a large growth in the coming years. The internet is forever going through advancement and change, and therefore skilled engineers are needed for the growing industry.

Remuneration

The IT sector is one of the most rewarding fields. Someone just out of college can earn around Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 20,000 every month. But with more experience and skill, salary rises quickly. At the management level, one can earn around Rs. 1 lakh or more every month. Besides, there are perks and other benefits that various companies offer.