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...Lilly says. Scarry “has single-handedly made my Harvard experience spectacular,” says Lilly. Lilly, a neurobiology concentrator, will attend Harvard Medical School in the fall, while Scarry, a Social Studies concentrator, will begin a doctoral program in political science at the University of Chicago. This is the first separation for the pair, who both lived in Mather House after their stint in Grays. Lilly describes the change as “really sad” but says “we’ll be visiting each other regularly.” The pair...
...Once he made his decision, Patil studied Sanskrit at Harvard until he exhausted all of the courses available to him. He then went to the University of Chicago to finish his doctorate. In addition to his university studies, Patil spent summers traveling to India to learn the classical texts in the traditional way. This meant going to the house of a trained teacher each day and examining a text in depth, line by line. Many of his teachers only spoke to him in Sanskrit...
Faust had turned down many alluring opportunities. She had said no to the University of Chicago, to the Mellon Foundation, and to the University of Pennsylvania. Now she had a chance to rise to a position she had come to covet...
Cech drew support from two heavy weights of higher education: Bowen, the former Princeton chief, and former University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray, who chaired the Howard Hughes board of trustees. As a former member of the Harvard Corporation, Gray was one of the key backers of Larry Summers in the 2001 presidential search...
...first time Cech had pulled out of a search after last-minute reservations. When the University of Chicago considered him for its presidency last year, Cech withdrew from the race citing similar concerns, according to two individuals close to the Harvard search. (As it happened, the Chicago search committee would decide that Drew Faust was its candidate, even flying to Cambridge to try to convince a reluctant Faust to accept the offer, the sources said...