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...turn of the century, higher education in America made a dramatic transformation as it began to emulate the research universities of Europe. Harvard, never one to be left out, made the switch from a college to a university under the visionary leadership of President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, and thus ensured its preeminence for the decades to come...
After the Second World War, American higher education was again made, as the GI Bill made it possible for many more Americans to attend college than ever before and as the government began to invest in basic research. Harvard recast itself under then-President James B. Conant '14 to become--as it had not been before--a meritocratic institution drawing on a national student base, and the centuries-old school showed itself to be the leader among America's new system of higher education...
...Neil L. Rudenstine, today's Harvard president, is to be believed, his tenure in office will be no less important than Eliot's or Conant's. Higher education, he contends, is again at a crossroads, and Harvard must once again radically rethink the way it operates in order to keep up with changes in academic pedagogy...
...This is a profoundly transformative moment in higher education in America," Rudenstine says. "Since 1970 at least, the system has been built and the fundamental structure has not shifted in any significant way...All of a sudden, the world is a whole new ballgame...
...very evident Harvard is the brand name in higher education to a much greater degree than can be explained rationally, given the excellence of other American universities," says Dean of theCollege Harry R. Lewis...