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...days after Lawrence H. Summers was named Harvard’s 27th president, professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) lauded his reputation at the United States Treasury—an opinionated, straightforward leader who wasn’t afraid to stake out and defend unpopular positions...
...Springfield] definitely did its homework,” Bookman said. “They know we don’t defend the ‘5’ that well and it was tough to get a block on that attack...
...against the University. And most tenured Faculty would say it’s better that way. Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely, a 25-plus year veteran of the English department, gives a quasi-rousing justification of the current process. “In one way, one can defend the tenure process because we are trying to get the best people possible. It has to be painstaking. I don’t know if it will change,” he says...
...Princeton offense did not make things easy for Harvard. The Tigers repeatedly put the ball past Harvard blockers, forcing the Crimson to defend more than it would have liked...
...Some of the dual meets we’ve lost—Penn and Cornell—aren’t reflective of the way we’ve wrestled,” Jantzen said. “We should be in a good position to defend our title...