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34 quotes by Drew Gilpin Faust

Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian, college administrator and the President of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university and is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Faust is also Harvard's first president since 1672 without...
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I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages... →

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The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or... →

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The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity... →

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I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20... →

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Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of... →

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High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave... →

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I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my... →

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I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are... →

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Mortality defines the human condition.

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I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as... →

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As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you... →

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As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small... →

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Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and... →

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