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Because the University seals access to presidential search papers for 80 years, the most recent records available date from a very different era: the 1908 quest to replace retiring University President Charles W. Eliot. In that search, the Corporation—the University’s top governing body—selected A. Lawrence Lowell, a member of the Class of 1877 and a popular Government professor...
...Eliot, a member of the Class of 1853, announced that he would step down as president after nearly 40 years of service at a meeting of the Corporation on Oct. 26, 1908, according to Corporation records. His retirement would take effect no later than...
...Eliot, Greene, and the five other Corporation fellows were charged with choosing a successor. And even though Lowell was the acknowledged frontrunner, Eliot did not support his candidacy...
...last man that [Eliot] wanted to be president to follow him was A. Lawrence Lowell,” says Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70, author of “Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience...
Andrew D. Fine ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House...