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...highest governing body—Stone served on the search committee that named Neil L. Rudenstine Harvard’s 26th president in 1991. And as the Corporation’s senior fellow until 2002, he led the panel that ultimately picked Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th. Incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok ranked Stone “among the three or four most influential people of the last 25 years in helping to shape Harvard’s constructive influence on the world.” A prodigious fundraiser, Stone “would hear about an Arabian...
...varsity heavyweights relinquished their EARC dominance to No. 1 Princeton on a turbulent day at Lake Quinsigamond. A dramatic come-from-behind win for Harvard’s No. 1 second varsity, coupled with a third-place finish for the Crimson freshman eight, helped seal Harvard’s 27th Rowe Cup.Thunderstorms and rainfall suspended the lightweight and heavyweight varsity races for over an hour, and fans took cover in the course boathouse as violent storms rolled in during the early afternoon. “We were just getting ready to start and a huge storm began, so the raced...
...Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—Stone served on the search committee that named Neil L. Rudenstine to be Harvard’s 26th president in 1991. And he led the panel that ultimately picked Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th...
...shortest of any Harvard president since the Civil War—said he is most proud of his efforts to revamp undergraduate education, boost science and interdisciplinary initiatives, and expand financial aid to more students. But he was reluctant to predict his legacy as Harvard’s 27th president. “I think it’s for others to judge,” he said. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
This class-struggle, if you will, is why Harvard ranks 27th out 31 elite schools in student satisfaction according to a 2005 Consortium on Financing Higher Education poll (COFHE). Two administration sources—anonymous because they are supposed to pretend it doesn’t exist—say that Yale and Princeton do "considerably" better than Harvard in the poll, which was conducted in secret and leaked to the press. Our worst features were "a "sense of community" and social life"—that oxymoron...