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Harper, William Rainey

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Harper, William Rainey (1856-1906)

US educator and Hebraist. A Yale University PhD at age 18, this widely published and eminent teacher of Semitic languages and literature helped plan and served as the first president of the University of Chicago (1891-1906). He made the university a great research institution, recruiting a brilliant faculty and establishing its extension system, cooperative programs, graduate schools, and university press. He was born in New Concord, Ohio.
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