Lowell is credited with shifting Harvard from a loose collection of academic departments into a cohesive residential university.
Lowell was also a prominent legal scholar and political scientist before taking the helm at Harvard. Accomplices of Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Harvard Law Review abbott lawrence lowell
: He moved the curriculum away from the "free elective" system of his predecessor, Charles William Eliot, introducing a focus on concentration and distribution (the precursor to modern majors and general education requirements). Lowell is credited with shifting Harvard from a