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While Harvard’s most recent presidents—Lawrence H. Summers, Neil L. Rudenstine, and Derek C. Bok—did not earn their undergraduate degrees at Harvard, it was not debatable in 1908 whether an individual without a Harvard College degree could be chosen, Gomes says.
In the current search, two leading candidates—Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy and University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Alison F. Richard—have no Harvard degree and have never served on Harvard’s faculty.
Disputed ever since has been the degree to which Kennedy mangled his German, transforming his intended declaration of solidarity - "I am a Berliner! - into the less inspiring, "I am a jelly donut." Whether giggles today about his supposed gaffe are warranted or not, Berliners on that day knew exactly what...
Unlike every president since 1672, Richard does not hold a degree from Harvard. She is tied to the University by her daughter, Elizabeth N. Dewar, who graduated from the College in 2002.
The presidential search committee has seriously considered non-Harvard grads in the past. In the 2000-2001 search, Lee C. Bollinger—now president of Columbia University—was a finalist without a Harvard degree who also was tied to the University by a daughter who had been...