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...Summers, I have removed Harvard as a beneficiary of my estate. I am recommending the same to other friends and associates.”“So the radical feminists and PC police win, and Harvard and its students lose,” he added. Similarly, Richard A. Holt ’64 wrote in another unpublished letter to the editor that he would no longer be donating to Harvard, protesting Summers’ ouster. “The resignation of Dr. Summers indicates to me that Harvard has become a place where vigorous debate, examination of unpopular ideas...
...them will be named Harvard president,” writes Gardner in an e-mail. “The knowledge base and personal qualities desired are sufficiently rare that only a few people qualify.”Prominent leaders in higher education today include anthropologist Alison F. Richard, head of the University of Cambridge; Stanford Provost John Etchemendy, a professor of philosophy; University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman; Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman; and Shirley Ann Jackson, a physicist and the president of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.Other candidates whose names have been bandied about include Ruth...
...lamented the proliferation of economists who were “good at the blackboard” but did not apply their theories to real situations, a class of thinker that he called “esoteric,” according to his biographer, Kennedy School of Government lecturer Richard Parker...
...looked at it and turned it over and examined it and then, with a twinkle in his eye, said ‘Richard, I do not know Japanese, but given the importance of this subject, I shall dedicate my remaining days to learning...
...While the current bicameral governance structure has on balance served Harvard well in past eras, it may not be the best structure for a modern university running a $2.6 billion budget,” says overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73, who served on the working group. “It is not to say the structure is irretrievably broken, but rather the Overseers wanted to see whether we could improve the operations within the structure...