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...with undergraduates in the Faculty Club for breakfast to listen to their concerns. “I think it was helpful to the undergraduates, but more importantly it really informed Bob about what was going on, and he really took delight in those sessions,” James R. Houghton ’58, the Corporation’s senior fellow, said in a telephone interview. Stone is survived by his wife of 58 years, Marion Rockefeller Stone of Greenwich, Conn., as well as his six children and 15 grandchildren, according to the University. —Staff writer Nicholas...
...members of the Harvard Corporation—other than the president—and three members of the Board of Overseers.“We’ve just really begun our activities,” the search committee’s chair, Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58, writes in an e-mail. “I think the year ahead will be a very full one.”But in an unprecedented move for Harvard, two formal advisory groups—one composed of faculty and the other of students—were...
...James R. Houghton ’58—the senior fellow of the University’s most powerful body, the Harvard Corporation—had concluded that it was time for the presidency of Lawrence Henry Summers to come...
Thousands of miles across the Atlantic, however, the tides were turning. Just a few days after the bruising Faculty meeting, Houghton jetted to Europe for personal business. He had been scheduled to return to the States the weekend before Tuesday, Feb. 14, but due to stormy weather, his arrival was delayed. In the interim, Houghton turned to the phones, placing a number of calls to Cambridge, according to a professor who later spoke with the senior fellow...
...Houghton’s wish for an immediate dismissal would not find support on the Corporation. But Houghton and one other board member planned to meet with Summers that Tuesday to tell him to bow out. They were set to execute a Valentine’s Day breakup...