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Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy Christopher Murray, who was expected to head the new institute, told Bloomberg this week that Ellison had stopped communicating with the University in November of last year—months before Summers’ presidency fell into critical condition...
...according to Wynne, Ellison began questioning the donation “long before November,” though he did not specify the exact moment...
Harvard only heard about Ellison’s withdrawal of his donation through the media and had not heard directly from Ellison, Harvard University Alumni Affairs and Development Director of Media Relations Sarah Friedell said on Wednesday...
Other University officials were less certain about Ellison’s promise, but Summers turned a deaf ear to demands by top administrators to obtain a formal commitment from Ellison. Summers’ attitude changed sometime last year after frequent delays on Ellison’s end, and the president began scrambling—with no success—to get the gift in writing, the source said...
...underlying cause of Ellison’s change of heart was not immediately clear, but one source close to Mass. Hall said that Ellison had expressed disenchantment with Murray in private meetings on his yacht, and that he was more enthusiastic about having Summers oversee the project than to have Murray lead the institute...