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...Du Bois, Class of 1890, once said he realized "all the irony" whenever he sang "Fair Harvard." Future founder of the NAACP, Du Bois was also the only black undergraduate in his class...
...Harvard, but not of it," Du Bois reflected in 1960. Excluded from residence, extra-curricular activities and friendships with other white students, his mixed sentiments foretold Harvard's often-ambiguous relationship with what Du Bois would famously term "the problem of the 20th century"--race...
...face of Harvard at the turn of the 21st century looks vastly different from the one that stigmatized Du Bois...
...There's no one like him," says Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., who serves as the chair of the Afro-American studies department. "He's a brilliant philosopher. He possesses a keen analytical mind, and he is blessed woratory. I know no on else my who combines this set talents...
...Gates assumed leadership of thedepartment and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute forAfro-American Research, and soon Harvard againcame knocking. In 1994, West answered...