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...confronted with McClintick’s charges—said he was “not knowledgeable of the facts and circumstances to be able to express an opinion as a consequence of my recusal.” The Harvard Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, would later defend Summers’ response—or lack thereof. “Given his recusal, his consequent lack of knowledge of the University’s deliberations on the matter and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ practice of maintaining the confidentiality...
Even if it was expensive, Houghton had achieved what he wanted—an end to the Summers presidency...
...Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, writes in an e-mail that he does not foresee changes in the Overseers’ role “in any formal sense...
...Summers has said that on Feb. 15 he arrived at his decision to step down and notified members of the Corporation that same day. Houghton had recently told Summers that the embattled president had lost the fellows’ support, according to a source close to the Corporation. (See story, page...
...Houghton casts the Board in a similar role, but includes the Corporation, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College...