I would consider that to be a statement as non-controversial as "Shakespeare has the reputation as one of the greatest of all writershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writerin the English language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language and in Westernhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_worldliterature, as well as one of the world's pre-eminent dramatists" from our Shakespeare article.
It is for example at #1 at the US News & World Report list of America's best colleges see http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natu...
The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked it as the #1 university in the world see http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-1343946,00.html
They could be cited in support of the statement and possibly should be but the original statement about Harvard seems fair enough.
Regards
Keith Old User: Capitalistroadster On 10/30/05, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
I see that Harvard, for example, now contains as its second sentence "It is widely considered one of the finest academic institutions in the world."
The last list I saw, the Chinese survey, went 1. Harvard 2. Cambridge, 12-1 bar these two. Or something.
Of course there shouldn't be POV in those articles, or unsourced tendentious assertions, any more than elsewhere. Do we have articles on 'prestige surveys'?
Charles
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