/kloc-WilliamRaineyHarper, a top American educator and academic leader, was the first president of the University of Chicago, a top university in the world. In addition, Harper was the first president of Bradley University.

Chinese name: william harper.

William Ryan Harper

Nationality: USA

Place of birth: Ohio, USA

Date of birth:1July 24, 856

Date of death: 1906 65438+ 10/0.

Occupation: educator, linguist

Graduate School: Yale University

Major achievements: the first president of the University of Chicago.

Representative Works: Green Induction Method (1888)

The life of the character

Harper was born on July 24th, 856 in New Concord, Ohio. His parents are of Irish-Scottish descent. Harper has been called a "prodigy" since he was a child. /kloc-graduated from Muskingum College at the age of 0/4 with a double degree in linguistics and music. 16 years old, admitted to the graduate school of Yale University, and graduated four years later with a doctorate in linguistics. After graduation, Harper taught linguistics (Hebrew, etc. ) in various universities, including his alma mater, Yale University, and began to organize the University of Chicago from 189 1.

189 1 year, john rockefeller selected Harper, who was only 35 years old, to help establish the University of Chicago, and Harper was subsequently elected as the first president of the University of Chicago. With his excellent eloquence and drastic reforms (such as increasing the salary of professors), Harper attracted a large number of top academic talents for the University of Chicago in a short time, making the University of Chicago, which was founded about 250 years later than Harvard University, one of the top universities in the world in just a few decades.

Harper established the first sociology department and ancient Egyptian department in American universities at the University of Chicago, and later founded the famous University of Chicago Press. Harper strongly supports lifelong learning and implements a three-semester system. Some of his educational ideas have become the basis of the American community college system.

Harper encouraged the employment of female faculty members, which laid the foundation for the establishment of the Chicago Teachers' Union, which later fought for equal rights for teachers.

Personal work

Harper wrote many textbooks in his life. His monographs include:

Personal life

Harper met his future wife EllaPaulHarper when he was studying at Yale University, and they got married on 1875. Harper and his wife have four children.