Charles William Eliot: pioneer, interpreter, administrator, citizen
James Burrill Angell: leader, friend, man of conciliations
Daniel Coit Gilman: president of vision and of sympathy
Andrew Dickson White: founder, diplomat, author, gentleman
Cyrus Northrop: president of the big heart and the creative spirit
Mark Hopkins: the American college Socrates, an apostle to youth
William Torrey Harris: the metaphysician who was also an educational administrator
William Rainey Harper: student, teacher, president, who laid foundations
James Harris Fairchild: theologian and president who enriched and transmitted great traditions
Richard Salter Storrs: preacher of splendid eloquence
Frank Wakely Gunsaulus: preacher and administrator, loving and loved
Henry Adams: teacher, historian, superficial pessimist, profound optimist
James Bryce: world citizen, friend of America
John Morley: statesman, biographer
John Hay: friend of Lincoln, helper of the nations
Andrew Sloan Draper: engineer in education
William De Witt Hyde: president who taught philosophy, philosopher who was a college executive
James Monroe Taylor: president of strength and of good fellowship
Samuel Harvey Taylor: teacher, who trained boys
Edwards Amasa Park: apostolic theologian. discriminating teacher
William Jewett Tucker: beloved, a lover of students
George Herbert Palmer: scholar, teacher, author, interpreter of Homer.
