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Corporation fellow and former Treasury secretary, has also expressed interest in appointing an external candidate with an assertive leadership style, the two sources said. In 2001, Rubin, who was not yet a member of the Corporation, played a key role in convincing the search committee to select Lawrence H. Summers. Rubin, who was appointed to the Corporation in 2002, later defended Summers when his presidency was in turmoil...
Even with Cech out of the running, Faust does not have the support of at least two influential advisers to the search panel, former Corporation member Hanna H. Gray and former Princeton President William G. Bowen, who had both backed Cech, according to one individual close to the committee. In the last search, Gray’s support was key to Summers’ appointment...
Rumor has it that soon Harvard will have a new president, and if so, the announcement will take place just shy of a year to the day when the resignation of Lawrence H. Summers was announced. His was the shortest tenure in the presidential office since that of Cornelius Conway Felton, Class of 1827, who, in addition to being deaf as a post, died in office in 1862 after serving just two years. Summers remained in office, a conspicuously lame duck, until June 30 when he was succeeded by one of his predecessors, Derek C. Bok, who had served...
...humane listener Neil L. Rudenstine, who, as one critic put it, “acted like a dean,” and whose capacity for deference made him seem a pushover to many (he wasn’t), was succeeded by the tough talking and tough acting Lawrence H. Summers, whose advent was described as “a new sheriff in town.” If the Corporation behaves true to form, it will be looking for the not Larry Summers...
Political demonstrations turned musical this week as members of a protest group entered Harvard classrooms, singing for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. The vocalists were members of the LaRouche Youth Movement—followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche, a political agitator and eight-time presidential candidate. Some professors welcomed the lyrical demonstrators as a calming force amid the hustle and bustle of shopping period classrooms. Professor of Biostatistics David P. Harrington said he gave the group permission to perform in his course, Statistics 100, “Introduction to Quantitative Methods.” “They...