The Astounding Widener Library at Harvard Yard

The Harvard University donation is 3 million dollars, not millions of dollars. Where did Harvard got all the money? Harvard University received the majority of money from rich alumni to donate to the university. This is how they have Harry · Elkins' Widener Memorial Library today. Mr. Widner is a graduate of Harvard University who lost his life in the disaster of the Titanic. His family is so rich that he spent two million dollars to conceal all valuable books in Harvard and store them. Widener Library has played an important role in the history of Harvard University.

The Harvard University Library System is centered on the Widener Library at Harvard University and there are nearly 80 libraries with over 18 million books. According to the American Library Association, this makes it one of the largest academic libraries in the United States and one of the largest libraries in the world. Houghton Library, Arthur, Elizabeth Schlesinger, American Women's History Library, Harvard University Archives are mainly composed of rare and unique materials. The oldest new maps in the United States, geographical dictionaries, old and new atlas are kept in the Pusey library and are open to the public. The largest collection of East Asian languages ​​other than East Asia was held at the Harvard Yenching Library

The 209-acre (85-hectare) main campus of Harvard University is located at Harvard University in Cambridge, about 3 miles west-southwest of Boston's downtown and extends to the surrounding Harvard Square. The Harvard University itself has a university central management office and major libraries, and the school building has Sever Hall and University Hall, Memorial Church, and most new dormitories. In the second year, juniors and senior undergraduates live in twelve houses. Nine of them are in the south of the Harvard Garden along the Charles River or near it. The other three are located in a residential area northwest half-mile of a quadrilateral garden called Radquiffs University's former quadruple quad until Radcliffe merged the Harvard and housing system. Each house has undergraduate room, house master, resident instructor, restaurant and library.