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by csa 1208 days ago
Check out this article:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/27/opinion/harvard-presi...

The original push for diversity was successfully implemented by Eliot (president before Lowell).

Lowell definitely twisted the implementation and took it in a twisted direction (notable that his beliefs were more widely held than Eliot’s), but all of that was (relatively quickly) undone by Conant (president after Lowell), and a push toward more diversity in the manner of Eliot was continued.