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By the age of eight, Harper began preparing for college level courses; at the age of ten he enrolled in Muskingum College in his native New Concord, Ohio; and at the age of fourteen he graduated from Muskingum.
One of Harper's ideas, that students should be able to study the first two year's of college in their own communities to be better prepared for the rigors of college, helped lead to the creation of the community college system in the United States.
Harper died on January 10, 1906 of cancer at the age of forty-nine.
Harper Library is designed to meet general library needs of students in the College, as well as those of non-specialist readers throughout the University.
The William Rainey Harper Memorial Building was planned in 1910 as the central building for the main quadrangle, to house the General Library's offices and research collections, and to commemorate the first president of the University.
Noteworthy carvings in the Harper Reading Room include the coat of arms of eight American universities (Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, and Chicago) on the screen at the west end, and eight foreign universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Bologna, Tokyo, and Calcutta) on the screen at the east end.
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