Word: greates
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Government by commission is the system used by all great corporations and even by the United States army. In the building up of Harvard University, which has been attributed to the President, the real power has been with the group of men who directed him. The conduct of a city's business is too great a work...
...secured the confidence of the public in himself and in the University. He has at all times maintained the preeminent value of the co-operation of the great teaching body of the College with its governing boards. Holding opinions which he was always prepared to defend, he has expected others to imitate his example...
...Classical Department, of which he was the head for many years. His researches and publications stamped him as an authority on classical philology, and his administrative ability was of immeasurable value in the development of the Graduate School. It is to such men as Dean Wright, men of great personal charm and profound learning, that Harvard owes the place which she now holds in this country and abroad...
...made Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and held that position until his death. Under the guidance of Dean Wright, the Graduate School has attained a position of great importance. His personal interest in the individual students has been one of his most marked qualities. During the last few years his failing health has prevented his continuing his literary career, and he has devoted his entire time to the Graduate School...
...contributed to by the most eminent historians in Europe and America. He has also written many articles of importance for classical and archaeological magazines. He was at one time secretary, and later president, of the American Philological Association, his work bringing him into wide acquaintance with the other great philologists of America. For ten years he was editor of the American Journal of Archaeology; he has likewise edited the Classical Quarterly and the Classical Review. Two years ago he gave a series of lectures at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens...