I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.
DescriptionAmerican historian, college administrator and the President of Harvard University
AliasesCatharine Drew Gilpin
BornSeptember 18, 1947
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionHistorian
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Time 100; Honorary Doctorate; Honorary Doctorate; Honorary Degree; Honorary Degree; Jefferson Lecture; Bancroft Prize; American History Book Prize