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...were unengaged and not impressed. What was a president to do? Perhaps angry young white males found new outlets for their aggression—the Civil War—because the next four presidents didn’t encounter much opposition. It wasn’t until Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, took office in 1869 that the University actually reigned in and took...
...Reconstruction, Harvard was in need of its own rejuvenation. The Corporation chose Charles William Eliot as president in 1869 after he published an article titled “The New Education” in The Atlantic Monthly. This “new education,” emphasizing more personal choice and practicality, would need a special kind of leader. The 35-year-old Eliot considered himself that kind...
...initiatives, such as the nascent Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Such projects can require the president to act as a mediator between often-tribal faculty departments, bringing together, for example, scientists and philosophers to tackle the academic riddles of the future. Past presidents, from Lawrence H. Summers to Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, have adopted a confrontational management style, attempting to force through initiatives with a blunt stick. If we, as observers of Harvard University, learned anything from the rapid downfall of former University President Summers, it is that no man—now, no person—can push...
...lack of candidates who had the right trio of qualifications: a combination of experience, an appetite for change and challenge, and a tie to Harvard. Among the 22 confirmed candidates, only two were in their 40s. Fifteen were in their 50s while five were in their 60s. Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, became president in 1868 at the ripe age of 35. Derek C. Bok and Summers, who became president at the ages of 40 and 46 respectively. Faust is 59 and, like Neil L. Rudenstine—the first man since before World War I to be chosen...
...Crimson photo editor. “I write with the hope of someone reading it and enjoying it and potentially being moved by it,” she says.ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTSWith past poetic giants such as Robert Frost (who never graduated from Harvard), T. S. Eliot ’09, E.E. Cummings ’15, John L. Ashbery ’49, and Adrienne Rich ’51, being a poet at Harvard—or even a student of poetry—can be a daunting task. Yet, instead of being frightened, many Harvard poets...