In the early years of the twentieth century, President Charles
William Eliot fought to keep Harvard from becoming a refuge for
"the stupid sons of the rich." A. Lawrence Lowell, a tireless
builder, gave the modern University its physical structure. James
Conant helped forge a wartime alliance of universities, industry,
and government that sustained an astonishingly prosperous postwar
epoch. Their successors saw Harvard through the turbulent 1960s and
1970s, adapting the University's programs and policies to the needs
of a rapidly changing society, strengthening longstanding bonds
with international institutions, and creating new ties to the
cultures of Japan, China, and other Eastern nations. In words and
pictures, Harvard Observed documents the shaping of the singular
institution that poet and essayist David McCord, a former Harvard
Alumni Bulletin editor, called "the haven of scholars and teachers,
the laboratory of scientists and technicians, the church of the
theologian, the crow's nest of the visionary, the courtroom of the
law, the forum of the public servant. It is gallery, concert hall,
and stage; the out-patient ward for the medical student,
counting-house of the businessman, classroom of the nation, lecture
platform for the visitor, library to the world; and...'on of the
great achievements of American democracy.'" Depicting the evolution
of twentieth-century Harvard in the broader context of national and
world events, Harvard Observed has much to say and show about the
academic rites, intellectual arguments, sexual mores, fads, and
folklore that became touchstones for successive generations of
Harvardians. Photographs, drawings, and paintings from the
University's vast archival collections and museums add a compelling
visual dimension.
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