biography
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Harper, William Rainey
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| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1906)
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| biography:
| Educator and Hebraist, born in New Concord, Ohio, USA. A Yale PhD at age 18, this widely published and brilliant teacher of Semitic languages and literature planned and served as the first president of the University of Chicago (1891–1906), which he created as a great research university, recruiting an impressive faculty and establishing its extension system, cooperative programmes, graduate schools, and university press. |
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