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OF the two late presidents of Harvard, Eliot and Lowell, it was said that Eliot found Harvard a college and built upon it a university, while Lowell found a university and unearthed its college. Eliot developed great post-graduate schools, from medicine to business administration ; but his free elective system for undergraduates left the college almost spineless. It was for his successor to revalue the meaning of a B.A. degree, and he did.
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CONNELY, W. Dr. A. L. Lowell. Nature 151, 190 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151190a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151190a0