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...letter to Summers, Harper called his time on the Corporation “a highlight of my working life.” But in an interview, he would not say why that...
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 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...
...Harper, the only African-American ever to serve on the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—wrote that he was compelled to resign following a disagreement with James R. Houghton ’56, senior fellow of the Corporation, over a three-percent increase in Summers’ salary. Harper objected to the raise and said Houghton had not allowed for adequate discussion among the Corporation’s members...
...judgment, your 2004-05 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatsoever,” Harper wrote to Summers...