Education
Wesleyan University.
Wesleyan University.
He was also the first President of the University of Maine from 1896 to 1906. A graduate of Wesleyan University (Bachelor 1880, Master of Arts 1883), Harris came to Northwestern after a time as President of Maine State College ( 1893-1896), where he oversaw the transformation of the school into the University of Maine in 1896. At Northwestern, he helped develop the School of Commerce (now the Kellogg School of Management) in 1908.