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...whom should the slot go? How to round out a list that includes Gray, the two ex-Secretaries of the Treasury (Summers, as president, is on the Corporation ex officio), lawyer Conrad K. Harper (the only black member), new Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 (also presumably not far from retirement), and Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel (who formerly ran McKinsey and Co.). “We’ll probably be looking at what void there is on the Corporation, whether we need a scientist or an academician,” Stone said in The Crimson. Well...
...details. Varmus, who did graduate work in English at Harvard, has the benefit of a broad academic background and solid reputation—in fact, his name was bantered about not so long ago for the job Summers currently holds. All the business savvy of Daniel, Harper, Houghton, Rubin and Summers doesn’t matter unless they have scholars with a broad base of experience to work with (and no, doing economics, economics and economics isn’t what I mean...
Other women have also found their way onto Harvard’s walls. Amy Lowell watches over the Lowell House dining hall and Emily Dickinson hangs in Houghton Library...
Most of Harvard’s more valuable manuscript holdings reside not in residential Houses but in Houghton Library and the University Archives...
Knowles, who is the Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry, said he will return to teaching—but he said he has not yet decided whether he will return to the classroom immediately next fall...