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Despite the misplay when it came to paying deference to Radcliffe, Knowles was a consolidator, a dean with a tailor-like ability to make things fit, which required a prodigious work ethic, colleagues said...
...deanship, Knowles took incremental steps that would prove critical a decade later. He wired dorms and offices with Internet connections in 1996, earlier than most universities. He formed committees to examine the College dean’s office—which led to a restructuring under former FAS dean William C. Kirby—and the hiring of female professors...
...Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 remembered Knowles’ coming to academic deans’ meetings to discuss tenure cases with pages of notes, having already engulfed the enormous dossiers given to the deans about each candidate...
...ever read it as thoroughly as Jeremy had,” recalled Lewis, who was dean during much of Knowles’ first deanship...
...kept a hand puppet of a fighting nun in his desk drawer for special occasions. Vincent J. Tompkins, a former academic dean who served under Knowles, recalled one Saturday afternoon when the dean dropped to his knees to entertain Tompkins’ children with the puppet...