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...about his likely successor began. The conventional wisdom in the election of a Harvard president is that the Corporation nearly always elects someone who is the polar opposite of the most recent occupant of the office. In 1701, in seeking to find a successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this rejection that he combined with like...
...chief media advisor to President George W. Bush during the 2000 and 2004 election campaigns. Halperin was not active in journalism during his undergraduate years, but looks forward to studying the press at Harvard this semester. “This was the right time,” the former Mather House resident said. “This is a chance to learn from students and from Harvard overall.” Douglass too hopes to benefit tremendously from a semester at the Center. “I can already tell that this is such a rich environment...
MARIANNE F. KALETZKY ’08 of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Mather House Arts Chair...
ERIC L. FRITZ ’08 of Troy, Mich. and Mather House Associate Arts Chair...
WALTER E. HOWELL ’09 of Virginia Beach, Vir. and Mather House Associate Sports Chair...