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Summers’ legacy rests on a renewed focus on undergraduate education, leadership in the life sciences, and bold planning for an educational community in Allston. Rhetoric about the importance of undergraduates is common; most Harvard faculty members and all past presidents have talked about the importance of the College to Harvard as a whole. Despite this rhetoric, Harvard has rarely enjoyed a reputation for putting undergraduates first. Summers recognized the enormous privilege of teaching our extraordinary students. Through words and deeds, he hammered home to every faculty member the obligations that come with that privilege. He showed his passion...
...lost him the support of his star backers. With a large minority of the Faculty vehemently opposed to Summers, his supporters reasoned that no reconciliation was possible. Without their support, Summers was forced to resign. As an end to a conflict which has distracted the Harvard College Curricular Review, Allston development, and a whole host of academic endeavors, Summers’ resignation was, objectively, the best decision for the University as a whole. But there is a flip side to the Summers coin. Though they are the traits that angered Faculty members the most, Summers’ strong opinions...
...open letter to the Harvard community, Summers said divisions between him and the Faculty made it “infeasible” to advance his goals—namely, the completion of the undergraduate curricular review and the continuing campus expansion in Allston...
Summers wrote in his own open letter yesterday that one of the greatest challenges facing his successor will be uniting the University, particularly in such endeavors as the Allston expansion...
...subdued. The usual Friday might involve hanging out with the girls, catching a play, or going to the occasional party thrown at a society house. The students more frequently party hearty at neighboring colleges or in Boston. Rosenfeld, for example, spends most of her weekend hours at bars in Allston and Cambridge...