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...statement reflected the University’s careful choice of words in the matter. A press release issued yesterday afternoon was delicately titled, “Harper concludes service on Harvard Corporation...
...Harper, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1965, is a partner at the prominent New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. A former president of the New York City Bar Association, Harper served as the top legal advisor to the State Department from 1993 to 1996, while Summers was also in Washington at the Treasury...
...joint committee of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers would begin searching for a new board member. With the departure of the only African-American member and with only one woman, Nannerl O. Keohane, currently serving on the board, the University may face pressure on campus to replace Harper with another minority or a woman...
Angered by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women and minorities, Conrad K. Harper ultimately resigned from the Harvard Corporation last month after a dispute over Summers’ salary, according to a letter from Harper to Summers released by the president Monday...
...letter, which the University had previously said would not be made public, reveals that Harper called on Summers to step down two days after the no-confidence vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in March. “I believe that Harvard’s best interests require your resignation,” Harper concluded in his letter to Summers on July...