III. Agree or disagree with the statements:

1. Harvard College was established in 1636.

2. It was established with the principal purpose of providing a literate ministry for colonial churches.

3. It soon established itself as a liberal arts college.

4. It was a small institution with 20 students.

5. The next institution of higher learning established in the American colonies was Princeton.

6. The College of William was opened in 1893.

7. Other colleges were founded in the next century.

8. Students entered the college at the age of 17.

9. Private colleges and universities were established in various states.

10. Private colleges and universities are keeping leading position in educational system of the United States.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. When was Harvard College established?

2. What was its original purpose?

3. Was it a big or small institution?

4. How many students studied at it at first?

5. What was the next institution of higher education established in the American colonies?

V. Match the first part of the sentence (1-5) with the second one (a-e).

1	The decentralized character of the American educational system	a	is the greatest at the higher education level.
2	Private colleges and universi­ties	b	small schools for long periods.
3	Other colleges remained	c	were established in various states.
4	Harvard College was estab­lished with the principal purpose	d	founded by the graduates of Cambridge University.
5	The first American college was Harvard	e	of providing a literate min­istry for colonial churches.

VI. Make up a plan of the text.

VII. Retell the text in a written form (in English or Ukrainian). Text 11. Yale university

Ι. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

An ivy – плющ, Divinity – теологія, assets – активи, фонди, an endowment – дар, пожертва, a volume – том.

II. Listen to the text: Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Particularly well-known are its undergraduate schools, Yale College, and the Yale Law School, each of which has produced a number of U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S. school to award the Ph.D. Also notable is the Yale School of Drama, which has produced many prominent Hollywood and Broadway actors and writers, as well as the art, divinity, forestry and environment, music, medical, management, nursing, and architecture schools, each of which is often cited as among the finest in its field.

The university's assets include a $22.5 billion endowment (the second-largest of any academic institution) and more than a dozen libraries that hold a total of 12.5 million volumes (the second-largest university library system). Yale has 3,300 faculty members, who teach 5,300 undergraduate students and 6,000 graduate students. Yale is organized as a non-profit organization.

Yale's 70 undergraduate majors are primarily focused on a liberal arts curriculum, and few of the undergraduate departments are pre-professional. About 20% of Yale undergraduates major in the sciences, 35% in the social sciences, and 45% in the arts and humanities. All tenured professors teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually.

Yale uses a residential college housing system modeled after those at Oxford and Cambridge. Each of 12 residential colleges houses a representative cross-section of the undergraduate student body and features facilities, seminars, resident faculty, and support personnel.

Yale's graduate programs include those in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences — covering 53 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, biology, physical sciences, and engineering — and those in the Professional Schools of Architecture, Art, Divinity, Drama, Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Law, Management, Medicine, Music, Nursing, and Public Health.