'America's Oldest University': Why Penn Can Make Claim (1/2) ( 本次听写约170词 )

We conclude our foreign students series this week with questions from three listeners. To Yanaing from Burma wants to know how many colleges and universities are in the United States. Alaxander Romashco in Russia wonders which university in the United States is the oldest. And Mohama Frouzi in Iran would like to know more about Harvard University. The National Center for Education Statistics says more that 4200 colleges and universities award degrees. These include two-years schools as well as four-years schools. The oldest institution of higher learning in the country is Harvard in Cambridge, #. It was established in 1636 as Harvard College. # was an English colony at the time. The school was named for a puritan religious leader. John Harvard gave the college all his books and half his property when he died. At fist, Harvard had one teacher and nine students. Today it has almost 20000 students. Nearly 4000 of them this past year were from outside the United States.