Chapter 7The Drive for Excellence
The DNA of Harvard University was not entirely set by the time A. Lawrence Lowell gave up its helm in the early 1930s. Charles Eliot had established the institutional structure, which mingled graduate students with undergraduates. He had also broadened the curriculum to include all academic subjects. By reordering the college, Lowell brought much needed rationality to the university's broad choice of students and subjects. There was, though, still the matter of scholarly excellence, to which neither Eliot nor Lowell had given much attention. It was left to Lowell's successor to do that.
Appointed in 1933, James Bryant Conant was the first world-renowned scholar to lead Harvard. Already decorated for his research ...
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