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...moment in history demand commensurate imagination, daring, and a readiness to think boldly and big.”Having refrained from offering his own opinion throughout the Faculty’s debates in the past year, Summers seized his last meeting in the president’s chair to restate his ambitions for Harvard. And in veiled terms, he chastised the Faculty for alleged recalcitrance in the face of the changes he aggressively sought to make.“There is only one important question on which history will judge us,” Summers said...
...Several council members were visibly upset with the outcome of the vote. Sunday night, a proposal to replace the CLC with a new Outreach and Services committee was voted down. After that defeat, former UC presidential candidate Magnus Grimeland ’07 and CLC’s vice-chair of services, Raul A. Campillo ’09, advocated that the CLC continue as a committee in charge of student services and take on additional duties, including lobbying for a student center and raising money for a UC endowment fund. “Efficiency does not equal smaller numbers...
...writer is co-chair of the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard...
Lawrence H. Summers chaired his last Faculty meeting as University president yesterday. Below, a look back at Summers’ years in the University Hall president’s chair...
...issues of “intrinsic aptitude,” tensions exploded in what Summers called a “searing afternoon.” “We are not cowards, we are not spineless, and we are not with you,” said anthropology chair Arthur Kleinman. Ruth R. Wisse, a Yiddish literature professor, called it “a show trial to beat all show trials...