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...future.There is, however, an alternative, whose viability has become blissfully clear in the past week. Blessed with insight, experience, and a steadfast commitment to efficiency and democratic governance, Harvard’s administrative messiah comes replete with the self-confidence of Lawrence H. Summers, the verbosity of Derek C. Bok, and the grace-under-fire of Nathan M. Pusey ’28.Drew G. Faust should use this afternoon’s installation ceremony to prove her fealty to this university once and for all, by resigning the presidency. Harvard’s trustees should waste no time in confirming...
Despite providing inspiration through their own speeches, Rudenstine and former president Derek C. Bok both said this week that they were careful not to foist any advice upon Faust...
...Drew G. Faust has her work cut out for her to match the eloquence of those 11-year-olds. Behind Faust, on the steps of Memorial Church, will sit the last three men to speak on this occasion: Summers, in 2001; Neil L. Rudenstine, in 1991; and Derek C. Bok, in 1971. Each brought his own style and purpose to the inaugural stage, melding his vision for the institution with the weight of Harvard’s history and the tensions of the moment...
...didn’t think it was a very good time [for speeches] given all the unrest and disaffection of the time,” Bok said recently. “I tried to keep it as simple as I possibly could...
...wanted to say how we got there,” Rudenstine said of the speech. “Probably more like Derek Bok than Larry or Drew, I had in some sense lived through a lot of this history...