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“Today is not about particular programs, or about a list of specific priorities or goals,” she said in February. “I have many, many people to talk with, much more to learn, and much thinking to do, before that day comes.?...
Faust spent the summer poring over more than a century’s worth of Harvard installation speeches. Many of her predecessors, including Lawrence H. Summers, proposed specific initiatives, in the style of the U.S. president’s annual State of the Union address. (See story here.)
Former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine said this week that naming specific priorities can be dangerous if they prove unworkable.
But so far, Faust has been cautious in naming specific initiatives that will help her achieve those goals.
From the reserved elegance of Memorial Church to the sweeping grandeur of Sanders Theatre, the Harvard community honored 28th University President Drew G. Faust with two festive events on the eve of her inauguration. Yesterday afternoon, Nobel laureate in literature Toni Morrison gave a reading during the first function celebrating...