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...years as FAS dean: University President Drew G. Faust and former University President Neil L. Rudenstine were among those offering remarks, as well as Hanna H. Gray, a former member of the Harvard Corporation. Internationally renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma ’76 performed a selection from Bach, Knowles?? musical icon, for whom one of his sons—Sebastian—was named...
Faust also mentioned Knowles?? “legendary red pen,” and the appraising eye that the dean brought to the affairs of the Faculty...
...Drew, he often said, with his eyebrows raised, I shall be beastly,” Faust said, recalling the lead-up to one of the former dean’s criticisms. Rudenstine related a remark from one of Knowles?? sons, who said that he “never saw anybody try so hard to minimize the detritus of entropy...
Your excellent obituary of former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles omitted one of Knowles??s signal contributions to the University: his integral role in the 1999 merger of Harvard and Radcliffe. The merger dissolved the 120-year-old Radcliffe College, created the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and brought female undergraduates fully into the Harvard fold. Knowles and Mary Maples Dunn, who became the first acting dean of the Institute, hammered out one of the merger’s most contentious questions, whether Radcliffe would have its own tenured faculty or a collection of visiting scholars...
...Crimson reporters covering the merger, we often found ourselves in Knowles??s University Hall office during the months of secret negotiations. He was a delight to interview: warm and witty, by turns conspiratorial confidant and elusive roadblock, but always brilliant and kind. He had unusual flair for a Harvard dean. We will never forget his debut as “Josephine Knowles??—in lipstick, wig, and billowing ball gown—at the Gala celebration of the merger in October 1999. Knowles and then-Provost Harvey V. “Buttercup?...