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...right for Harvard both now and 25 years down the road. But before a short list is made, the committee must articulate its own vision for the University.We hope the committee does not stray far from Summers’ bold plan. The greatest presidents, typified by Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, were dreamers who fought tradition and inertia to keep Harvard evolving—from its roots as a small school for training clergymen into the preeminent institution of today. At each juncture, these great leaders sought to reinvent Harvard so that it could meet the challenges of education...
...meet the academic standards of a Kennedy School research paper.” In the magazine U.S. News & World Report, Kennedy School professor David R. Gergen called the Walt-Mearsheimer paper “an unfair attack.”In The Washington Post, Johns Hopkins University professor Eliot A. Cohen called it “a wretched piece of scholarship.” One of Mearsheimer’s colleagues at Chicago, assistant professor of political science Daniel W. Drezner, called it “piss-poor, monocausal social science.” And the Committee for Accuracy...
...voice of James L. M. Fisher ’06 has taken him a long way. Today it will take him to the podium at Tercentenary Theatre, where the Eliot House resident will deliver the male Harvard Oration. And his voice did not crack under the strain of the two-tiered search process. The Senior Class Committee began the process by accepting anonymous submissions of potential speeches. Based on the text, a handful of applicants were granted an audition in front of the committee, according to Senior Class Committee member Christina L. Adams ’06. Fisher was ultimately...
...real function of the Board of Overseers is to stimulate and watch the President and Fellows,” said Eliot, Class of 1853. “The Overseers should always hold towards the Corporation an attitude of suspicious vigilance. They ought always to be pushing and prying...
Until 1865, the entire Massachusetts state senate sat as ex officio members of the Board of Overseers. But since the end of the Civil War, alumni have elected new Board members at Commencement. Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, who would become president in 1869, at the time called the change a “happy liberation” of the University from state control...