The Time of Harvard: A Journey Through Harvard's Time: 400 Years History and Story

A Journey Through Harvard's Time: 400 Years of History and Story (Complete Edition)Everyone has heard of Harvard. Almost no one truly knows it.A Journey Through Harvard's Time is a comprehensive Korean-language guide to America's oldest institution of higher learning - its history, its people, and the physical world in which four centuries of that history actually live. This complete edition brings together both volumes of the acclaimed series into a single, definitive portrait of Harvard.The book opens with Harvard's origins - the 1636 founding, the meaning behind its iconic seal, the 1650 Charter that still governs it today, and the lesser-known histories of the Indian College and Radcliffe College, the pioneering women's institution that would later merge with Harvard. From there, it turns to the people who shaped it: John Harvard, not the founder of the university but the man whose early gift made today's Harvard possible, and a full history of the Harvard presidency - from early leaders like Nathaniel Eaton and Henry Dunster through transformative figures such as Charles William Eliot and A. Lawrence Lowell. It then examines how Harvard actually works today: its academic mission, the structure of Harvard College, the General Education curriculum and concentrations, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard's professional schools.The story then moves from the institution to the ground it stands on - the yards, libraries, and dormitories where generations of students have studied, argued, and grown. Readers are guided through Harvard's physical world, from the historic core of Harvard Yard to the university's expansion into Allston and Longwood, alongside a definitive history of the Harvard library system centered on the story of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. The book also chronicles Harvard's distinctive residential house system, from the 17 first-year dormitories to the 12 upper-class Houses that have shaped student life for nearly a century, and closes with a practical Q&A on Harvard admissions, "We're Heading to Harvard Now."Most of the photographs featured in this edition were taken by the author himself on campus over the past twenty years, bringing the vivid, present-day reality of Harvard to readers who may never set foot on campus.Written for students in need of motivation and direction, prospective applicants and their families, librarians, educators, and general readers curious about the Harvard that leads transformation in the world, A Journey Through Harvard's Time combines the narrative sweep of books like Sapiens with the precision of an academic reference - an essential, single-volume companion for anyone who wants to understand Harvard beyond the name.This is the Korean-language complete edition of The Time of Harvard. The international English edition is scheduled for publication in 2027.