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Unlike the current search—in which search committee members have traveled coast-to-coast to solicit alumni opinion, consulted with student and faculty advisory committees, and cast a wide net for candidates—the process of appointing Lowell “was just a formality,” according to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and Its Presidents...
...search process for Eliot’s successor concluded after just one meeting, according to a 1932 letter sent to the Harvard College Library from Jerome D. Greene, who then served as secretary of the Corporation...
...current search, two leading candidates—Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy and University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Alison F. Richard—have no Harvard degree and have never served on Harvard’s faculty...
Despite the lack of suspense surrounding Lowell’s selection, the search and appointment attracted national interest...
...century ago, “the election of a Harvard president had serious theological and political impacts,” Gomes says, noting that interest in the current search pales in comparison...