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...people here who can’t afford to live in their working-class houses because Harvard and MIT have attracted people here and housing costs are astronomical,” he says. “Harvard is not a not-for-profit institution.”A BITTER TASTE FROM THE PASTAllegations of improper profit-taking tainted Reeves’ first two terms. Political drama played out in 1994 when the Cambridge Chronicle accused Reeves of misusing a City credit card for personal expenses and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue investigated Reeves’ purportedly missing state income...
...lecture. A lucky few even grinded with him at a recent study break in Annenberg. Summers’ ability to turn issues on their heads by looking at them from an economist’s point of view was eye-opening. Maybe that’s why, to the bitter end, students supported Summers 3-to-1. Unfortunately for Summers, though, the tally for the no-confidence vote at next week’s Faculty meeting was quite likely to reveal just the opposite proportion.From last January, when Summers’ comments about “intrinsic aptitude?...
Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who announced his resignation Tuesday after a tumultuous five years in office, was known for his rough touch. He saw it as his job to prod a potentially complacent institution. But his tenure was marked by often bitter departures of some of the university?s highest-profile minds, from Cornel West in 2002 to the recent resignation of William Kirby, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The monthly meetings between Summers and Harvard faculty were never love-ins, but sources tell Time.com that the most recent meeting, on February 7th, turned into...
...Harvard is one of the five Ivy teams that went down to Yale in New Haven so far this year. Last month’s bitter 82-74 Crimson defeat seemed to hinge as much on the emotions generated by the Yale crowd’s rancorous baiting of Harvard’s players as on any other factor...
...energy from the crowd, but it’s nice to get the monkey off your back and finally get one.”Harvard is one of the five Ivy teams that went down to Yale in New Haven so far this year. Last month’s bitter 82-74 Crimson defeat seemed to hinge as much on the emotions generated by the Yale crowd’s rancorous baiting of Harvard’s players as on any other factor. Lavietes Pavilion did not offer the same home-court advantage as John J. Lee, however, leading...