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An inside view of 24 years of Harvard history and the man who made it comes to light today when the University Press brings out a biography of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 by Henry A. Yeomans '00, professor of Government, emeritus.
Professor Yeomans, who served under President Lowell as Dean of the College during most of the 1909 to 1933 regime, traces President Lowell's "effort to make the student the educational unit and to help him to educate himself."
The new biography explains the reasons and methods of the major changes that President Lowell brought about in the College. Chief of these were the concentration-distribution system, general examinations, tutorial, the reading period, and the House plan.
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