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That modest assessment was as elegant as it was untrue. His return to University Hall in 2006 was something of a victory lap as Knowles enjoyed the fruits of his previous turn as dean: a much larger Faculty, two new buildings for Harvard’s political scientists, and a new humanities outpost in the Barker Center...
When Knowles was at his finest, hand-written notes from the dean blanketed Cambridge like leaves in the fall. Each letter frequently contained a stick figure scribbled on the page, either expressing appreciation or dismay. Other times the Mozart fan would sketch violins...
...When he was asked to be dean,” Bok recalled more than a decade later, “he replied, ‘This is really not the best time for me to leave the lab,’ which is a really nice reaction...
Hanging up his labcoat and accepting the position of dean, Knowles joined company with a select group of 20th century Harvard men who had not just altered the University but the world around it. In the 1940s, Paul H. Buck held the post, chairing the committee that produced the “General Education in a Free Society” report, better known as the Red Book, which influenced curricula in higher education for a generation. McGeorge Bundy was chosen as dean in 1953 by University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, later to be tapped by another...
Indeed, Knowles quickly built a reputation as a dean of many words. He introduced the first illustrations to the annual dean’s letter, annotating his lengthy missives with detailed financial and enrollment data. (His last letter, in February 2007, took 20 pages and 23 footnotes to say what amounted to a handful of words on the hiring of science professors...