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Andrew D. Fine ‘09, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House...
...colony which would eventually settle at New Haven. The last clerical president, the Reverend Thomas Hill, Class of 1847, who resigned in 1868 to accept a better-paying job as minister of the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine, was eventually succeeded by the secular and scientific Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, who served for forty years...
...nearly a century and a half, another aspect of presidential speculation has been between insiders and outsiders. Eliot, when elected, was an outsider. A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, was very much an insider, and for ten years before his election Eliot’s resident iterant in the faculty. James B. Conant ’13 was also an insider and performed the same role in the last decade of the Lowell presidency. Nathan M. Pusey ’28, although the last graduate of Harvard College to hold the presidency, was an outsider, and when his name...
...lawyer, and more importantly, Mayor of Boston, famous for clearing out the brothels on Beacon Hill and renewing the city’s commercial center with what we now know as Quincy Market. Quincy succeeded the beloved but increasingly inept John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789, and Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, notes of the transition that “Tiberius succeeded Augustus.” Quincy got things done, but he was not loved, and one of the few artifacts of his presidency that remains is his stout walking stick with which he was known to thrash errant...
Such a choice will inherently be risky—but so was the choice of Eliot some 138 years ago. Indeed, Eliot’s nomination was unsuccessfully blocked by the Board of Overseers, which was concerned that Eliot might enact too many sweeping changes. History, however, has more than vindicated Eliot’s place as a giant in the evolution of higher education, and Harvard would not enjoy its modern distinction were it not for his leadership. Today, the members of the presidential search committee have the opportunity to make an equally momentous choice. Harvard?...