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...fundamentally change the institution of the Faculty but merely its leadership. Just as new presidents of the United States have to execute laws influenced by their predecessors, deans have to carry out policies created by their predecessors and approved by the Faculty, which includes a curricular system. Indeed, Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeremy R. Knowles did not change the curriculum when he took office in 1991, and Richard H. Broadhead, who oversaw the curricular review at Yale, left soon after Yale implemented the review he oversaw...
...owner into selling him a suitcase full of 18th-century books on credit. Then he set up shop on a patch of Square pavement and sold books to passersby at lunchtime.Within a year, he had learned about rare books and how to find good ones. Soon, his customers included Houghton Library, which holds Harvard’s rare book and manuscript collection. He regularly sold single volumes at four-figure prices.He decided the time had come to move his business out of the elements and rented a shop above a German restaurant called the Wursthaus, in the building that...
...worded letter of explanation. Three people close to Mass. Hall at the time say that even now, almost a year later, they are unclear as to what changed the president’s mind, though all three speculated that he had been directed to do so by James R. Houghton ’56, senior fellow of the Corporation—the only group with the power to fire the president...
...addition to Gergen, Summers also found support for his position from members of the Corporation, the only body on campus with the power to fire the president. Communicating by telephone in the first several days of the controversy, James R. Houghton ’56, senior fellow of the Corporation, told Summers that he should stand up to his critics on the Faculty and refuse to apologize, according to the two sources familiar with the discussions in Mass. Hall...
...Sudanese government, a relationship the CCSR condemns in light of the genocide in Darfur. The decision to divest came after months of vocal activism from student groups. According to the report, the CCSR—composed of Chairman Robert D. Reischauer ’63 and James R. Houghton ’58—agreed completely with the ASCR’s recommendations on 95 of the 126 proxies...