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Encyclopedia > Harvard Military School

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Harvard-Westlake School
Motto: Possunt Quia Posse Videntur
(Latin: "They Can Because They Think They Can")
Fully Merged 1991
School Type Private, Secular
Headmaster Thomas C. Hudnut
(since 1987)
Location Middle School: Los Angeles, CA
Upper School: North Hollywood, CA
Enrollment Middle School: 733
Upper School: 820
Average Class Size 270 students
Tuition $20,000
(Financial Aid Available)
Average SAT Scores Verbal: 688, Math: 704
Campus size Middle School: 12 acres (49,000 mē)
Upper School: 22 acres (89,000 mē)
School Colors Black & Red
Sports teams Wolverines
Mascot Wolverine

Harvard-Westlake School is one of the top college preparatory institutions in Los Angeles, California. Serving grades seven through twelve, the school is the product of the 1989 merger of Harvard School for Boys (founded in 1900) and Westlake School for Girls (founded in 1904).


The former Harvard campus, located in North Hollywood, CA, is now the location of the upper school (grades 10 through 12). The former Westlake campus, located near the Bel-Air neighborhood in West Los Angeles, currently houses the middle school (grades 7 through 9).


Approximately 99% of all graduating seniors will attend a 4-year college or university, including schools in the Ivy League and University of California system. Students are known for their commitment to a variety of activities and dedication to schoolwork. There are over 50 clubs. Combined, students contribute over 40,000 hours of community service each year. The Upper School student publication, The Chronicle has received national praise, and has been inducted into the high school newspaper Hall of Fame.


Harvard-Westlake is also a sports powerhouse, with several CIF titles in recent years. Perenially strong teams include boys and girls water polo and girls volleyball. Recently, both the girls volleyball and boys golf team have become popular, one as a result of the uniforms which accentuate the butts of some of the better figured players and the other because everyone likes volleyball.


Alumni

Famous Harvard alumni include the actor Mark Harmon, the Nelson brothers (of eponymic rock band fame), and Joe Gamsky (aka Joe Hunt), who used his Harvard contacts to found the Billionaire Boys Club, a Ponzi like investment scam, whose members finally resorted to murdering their wealthy parents in order to raise money.


Notable Westlake alumnae include Sally Ride, Shirley Temple and Myrna Loy.


The most famous Harvard-Westlake alumni to date are brother and sister Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and twin basketball stars Jason and Jarron Collins.


External links

  • Official Harvard-Westlake School Website (http://www.hw.com/)

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Harvard has the world's third largest library collection (after the British Library and the Library of Congress)[6], and the largest financial endowment of any academic institution, standing at $25.9 billion as of 2005, and the second largest endowment for a non-profit organization behind only the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Harvard has a friendly rivalry with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which dates back to 1900, when a merger of the two schools was frequently mooted and at one point officially agreed upon (ultimately canceled by Massachusetts courts).
Harvard is governed by two boards, the President and Fellows of Harvard College, also known as the Harvard Corporation and founded in 1650, and the Harvard Board of Overseers.
Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / Military recruiters banned (547 words)
Harvard Law School will once again ban military recruiters because of the Pentagon's policy on gays in the military, the school's dean announced yesterday, the day after a federal appeals court blocked enforcement of the federal law that forced schools to allow the visits.
Harvard had long barred military recruiters from formal campus visits because the Pentagon's ban on gays violated the school's nondiscrimination policies.
Like many other law schools nationwide, Harvard was forced to allow the recruiter visits two years ago, when the government invoked a law known as the Solomon Amendment and threatened to cut the university's federal funding.
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