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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38—prolific historian, noted Harvard professor, and a prominent “fighting liberal” throughout the 1950s and 60s, suffered a fatal heart attack during dinner with his family on February...
...will miss his sharp intelligence, his delightful wit, and his broad understanding of times past and present,” Faust said of her fellow historian...
...been spilled over Drew G. Faust’s election as President of Harvard University four months ago, the tenor of her presidency remains largely a mystery. It is clear that she is a woman accustomed to being in a man’s world: first as a historian of the antebellum South, then as an administrator, and now as a woman in a 367-year succession of 27 men. And her scholarship, charm, judgment, fundraising ability, administrative skill, and vision were all abundantly on display during her six years as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Yet Massachusetts...
...academic mission,” he said in the statement. When Smith assumes the position on July 15, he will be the fourth dean to sit in University Hall’s second-floor corner office in just over a year. The Faculty has lacked a permanent leader since historian William C. Kirby resigned under pressure from then-University President Lawrence H. Summers in January of last year. Jeremy R. Knowles, the chemist who led FAS through the 1990s and returned to University Hall last summer to serve as interim dean, stepped down last month because of complications from prostate...
...University’s flagship school has lacked a permanent leader since historian William C. Kirby resigned under pressure from then-University President Lawrence H. Summers in January of last year...