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...search committee’s chair, Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58, writes in an e-mail. “I think the year ahead will be a very full one.”But in an unprecedented move for Harvard, two formal advisory groups—one composed of faculty and the other of students—were also formed to help the search committee reach out to various constituencies across the University. The ultimate decision still lies with an exclusive group of trustees who are custodians of an unusually secretive selection process. But while...
...proposition that could only be made in person. Just one day after Summers had submitted his formal resignation to the Corporation, Houghton called Bok to notify him that he and Keohane would travel to Florida to discuss the situation further. On Saturday, Feb. 18, Keohane and Houghton met Bok for a secret rendezvous in Sarasota, Fla. They explained the circumstances to the former president, outlined their expectations, and told Bok that he would only have to serve for, at most, one academic year...
...Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, writes in an e-mail that he does not foresee changes in the Overseers’ role “in any formal sense...
...Board of Overseers provides formal and informal advice to the central administration and to the Corporation. It is also charged with ratifying important actions of the Corporation as well as major academic and administrative appointments...
Some Things Never Change March 17, 1981 Every few years, students here wake up to the fact of their own powerlessness. In 1978, for example, after a year of intense activism on campus, the Student Assembly was formed. Though students realized it had no formal power, they reasoned a representative body for all undergraduates might wield some influence. But the victories of the assembly have been few and far between—it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring...