Word: grayness
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...five-month-old half-Chihuahua, half-terrier, whom they named Becky. Joubert refuses to leave Becky alone in the couple’s gray Volvo station wagon, and the shelter—run by Harvard students and housed at the University Lutheran (UniLu) Church—maintains a strict no-dogs-allowed policy...
...colleagues on the Corporation, Summers could easily count on the backing of two whose reputations at Harvard are inextricably tied to his own: Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ predecessor at the U.S. Treasury, and Hanna H. Gray, former president of the University of Chicago...
...Gray, who will step down from the Corporation at the end of this month, was widely seen as Summers’ strongest supporter on the search committee. “Hanna, I think, saw some of herself in Larry,” said a former member of the Board of Overseers, the larger and less powerful of Harvard’s two governing boards...
...Gray was said to have been nonplussed by the tenure of Neil L. Rudenstine, whose ten-year reign over Harvard she saw as overly passive and lacking in vision. Speaking at commencement ceremonies at MIT in 1995, Gray took what some saw as a veiled swipe at Rudenstine, arguing in lofty rhetoric for more dynamic leadership in higher education: “It is instructive to see how much of the rhetoric having to do with the decline of higher education derives from the language of a larger nostalgia and from romantic visions of a golden age that never quite...
...Summers, Gray seemed to believe, was the antidote to Rudenstine’s inertia. And “no doubt she sees the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a foil to Larry’s bold leadership,” the former overseer said...