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Under pressure from the Corporation, Summers had made genuine attempts to woo back professors, according to several accounts by FAS members. In the weeks and months following the vote, Summers met privately with his critics and supporters, often holding breakfast and lunch meetings and parties at his Elmwood Avenue mansion to listen to their concerns, according to two professors who attended the meetings...
...about my academic credentials, as I had expected he would, we spent the first 15 minutes chatting about our families. He told me about his daughters and son, whom he had promised the biggest singles at Harvard if they came here. “In ‘Elmwood Hall,’ my house,” he deadpanned. And he asked all about my sister, my best friend but a bit of a rival. This was a detail he remembered a few months later when he signed a dollar bill for her, “Your brother...
...last month by journalist David McClintick ’62, who wrote that Summers “made a point of taking aside Jeremy Knowles, then the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, and asking him to protect Shleifer.”In a deposition at his Elmwood residence in March 2002, Summers acknowledged that, around the time he became president the previous year, “I expressed to Dean Knowles at some point that I was concerned to make sure that Professor Shleifer remained at Harvard, because I felt that he made a great contribution...
University President Lawrence H. Summers and Professor of English and American Literature and Language Elisa New were married yesterday in a ceremony at Elmwood, the president’s residence. Summers, 51, smiled broadly as he arrived with New, 47, at a reception in the Fogg Art Museum following the wedding. The president embraced his mother, Anita A. Summers, as members of both families greeted each other on the steps of the Fogg. The museum, home to the University’s prized collections of early Renaissance and Impressionist artwork, was transformed for the evening into a modest reception hall...
...when the door of Summers’ Elmwood estate opened, protestors were treated instead to the smiling face and enthusiastic demeanor of one of the president’s aides...