From 1810 until 1933 all of the presidents of Harvard University were Unitarians—a span of 123 years.
PREFACE
From 1810 until 1933 all of the presidents of Harvard University were Unitarians—a span of 123 years. Who were these leaders of higher education in the United States of America? The following online illustrated stories seek to answer that question. For delightfully longer biographies, see the classic Three Centuries of Harvard 1636-1936 by Samuel Eliot Morison, and Harvard Observed by John T. Bethell.
My initial source of information for this undertaking is the huge leather-bound, gold-embossed set entitled The Harvard Book, published in 1876. These two rare volumes were a gift of Mrs Roderick Stebbins, a parishioner in Milton, Massachusetts.
Other sources to be acknowledged with special appreciation include, in addition to the remarkable Harvard University Archives: Views of Harvard by Hamilton Vaughan Bail and Harvard: An Architectural History by Bainbridge Bunting.
I especially appreciate the review of the text by Conrad Wright and Alan Seaburg of Harvard.
Herbert F. Vetter, Minister at Large, Emeritus The First Parish in Cambridge, 2006
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Harvard Unitarian Acting Presidents
RECOMMENDED READING
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Three Centuries of Harvard 1636-1936 by Samuel Eliot Morison. |
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Harvard Observed An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century. by John T. Bethell. |
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Harvard: An Architectural History by Bainbridge Bunting. |