President of Harvard University

John Kirkland is known as one of the most beloved presidents in Harvard’s history. Among the students and faculty he was seen as a popular for his work during his presidency. Kirkland was aware of the quickly changing times and was attempting to cater to times, while also emphasis in the value of tradition. In “Observations on the Proposition For Increasing the Means of Theological Education at the University in Cambridge” Kirkland clearly expresses his viewpoints on the subject matter.…

Barack Obama has a net worth of $12.2 million. He was Illinois senator for 3 terms and became the first African American US President, as well as the 44th POTUS. He is an author and one of the most powerful people in the world. How he earned it Books Barack’s books, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams of my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance contributed immensely to his net worth. His speech during the Democratic National Convention in 2004 resulted in national exposure and popularity. As his…

The prestige associated with the Harvard Law Review certainly goes without saying; nonetheless, the honor related to being the president of such an eminent journal is unsurpassed. This past January, history was made when the assemblage of student editors for the 131st volume elected ImeIme Umana as the first female black president in the journal’s 130-year history. With essentially all other minority groups holding the office of president one before, Umana ushers in a new era of progress, not…

from colleges. Breyer got accepted to both Stanford University and Harvard University but decided to go to Stanford University (supremecourtreview.com). By being accepted to both of these great universities, it shows how intelligent Breyer is. In 1959 at Stanford University, he earned an A.B. and graduated with honors (supreme.findlaw.com). After Stanford, Breyer was not done with his education. Breyer attended “Magdelen College at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar” and continued with…

from a major university in the United States of America, Afghanistan or any nation around the world to run a country. Vice President and later President Amin, was a Columbia graduated who sold his motherland to the Russians, and killed thousands and thousands of his own Afghan people in Afghanistan. And even the ones before and after him, who are responsible for the lives of millions of innocent Afghan citizens, including women and children were all graduated from major universities in Kabul and…

High School. After graduating from high school, Howard attended the University of Wisconsin and received a Bachelors in Science (B.S.) in electrical engineering. Then, later joined Harvard and got his PhD and M.A. in Physics, and became an associate professor while there. Howard was inspired mostly by the century-old literatures of Charles…

Theodore Roosevelt What makes a president a great leader? First off, the President leads the United States by making choices that keep our nation together. Many people look up to the president and hope that he or she will do the right thing. While the president has a bulk of work to do, they still try to do what is right. One well-known President was Theodore Roosevelt. We will travel through his life as a young boy until he was president. First, President Roosevelt had a life unlike others.…

contributor to the Harvard Lampoon where he was also the president, much like his high school career. (Saldivar 216). Updike completed Harvard University after four years with a degree in English. First Updike’s earliest motivation and ambition was to become a cartoonist for the “New Yorker”. In order for Updike to strive toward his latest goal was to continue strengthening his educational skills which led to his enrollment at “The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art”, at the University of…

African student, witnessing a new report about an innocent black man being shot by a white policeman. He was in shock watching this report and suddenly began to lose faith in humanity. Denzel Jackson, one of the few African males who attended Harvard University, believed that racism was still a problem in society and not all races were treated equally. After this incident, there had been protests about the killing and saying that he was shot only because he was a black male. This led up to the…

George Franklin Grant was the first African American Professor at Harvard University. In Oswego, New York; his hometown; Grants first job was working in a dental office as an errands boy, to then become a lab assistant. This job, later pushed/ influenced him to be a dentist becoming one of the first blacks to ever attend Harvard Dental School. Progressing, Grant received his dental degree in 1870 becoming the first faculty member at Harvard, to which he served 19 years on the job. During his…