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Charles William Eliot

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American Higher Ed Never Figured Out Its Purpose

The centuries-long debate over who and what college is for has yet to be resolved.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on September 18, 2025

Harvard’s Eugenics Era

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”.
by Adam S. Cohen via Harvard Magazine on March 1, 2016
Buildings at the University of Minnesota.

The Book That Explained the University To Itself

Laurence Veysey’s 1965 tome remains the most incisive portrait of higher education.
by Scott Spillman via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 25, 2025
The son of Robert "Whitey" Fuller, director of publicity for Dartmouth athletics, and other children playing football, Dartmouth, 1946.

'Hit the Line Hard'

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.
by Jake Nevins via New York Review of Books on February 12, 2023
Headstones in Mount Auburn cemetery. Photograph by Daderot at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18003519.
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A Tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.
by Kathryn Ostrofsky on September 7, 2022
A gate opening to the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard Leaders and Staff Enslaved 79 People, University Finds

The school said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination.
by Nick Anderson, Susan Svrluga via Washington Post on April 26, 2022

By Retiring a Seal, Harvard Wages War on the Dead — but to What End?

Rather than censuring the legacies of our ancestors, we should work to make our descendants proud.
by Ted Gup via Washington Post on March 18, 2016
Men standing outside a store with a sign supporting the WPA in the window.

The Voluntarism Fantasy

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.
by Mike Konczal via Democracy Journal on March 17, 2014
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