Very beautiful university campus with the spirit of a top university. Harvard belongs to the so-called Ivy League (= 8 elite universities in the USA), because the alumni of this university have received > 160 Nobel Prizes, more awards than graduates of other universities. Unfortunately, it is difficult to reach by car as a "tourist" because of the very poor parking situation around the entire campus - i.e. it is better to park a little further away and walk there.

Really interesting trip. Connor was a great guide offered lots of insight on the history of Harvard. We didn’t plan this trip in advance but really enjoyed it The trip is just over an hour, easy to get to from Boston on the red subway line.

Needless to say, the pinnacle of American and world universities. Compared to our neighbor MIT, the buildings are old and look like a university in England or somewhere. Tourists are free to enter the campus, but it is better not to enter the campus.

If you are coming to Boston, you have to see the oldest postsecondary education in North America. We not only wanted to see it for its historical significance, but one of the couples had a son who had just started Law School here. In 1636, shortly after the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded, the need arose to educate future ministers for their Puritan utopia, and the colony soon found a place just outside Boston in Newtowne, matched by a sizeable donation of money and books from the recent death of a new immigrant to the colony, John Harvard. With the new University, the recently formed community got a name, Cambridge from the University city in east England where many of the Puritans had come. John Harvard and his wife had just emigrated to Massachusetts in 1637 to be a teaching pastor in Charlestown and at his death in 1638, he gave 780 Pounds and his library of 400 volumes. The cash money was nearly equal to the colony's annual tax receipts. From there the country's most prestigious institution of learning began and the rest is history. At the end of a long day, we were dropped off on Massachusetts Ave. We meandered through some buildings to the main quadrangle where the statue of John Harvard stands. We then walked through campus to see some of the more historic and renowned buildings on campus like Memorial Church and Memorial Hall before walking out the gates to our dinner in Harvard Yard. Something you have to see in Boston and Cambridge.