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Knowles’ relationship with the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, James R. Houghton ’58, was a subplot to the unraveling of the Summers presidency. Knowles was a close friend of Houghton, whose family endowed his professorship in chemistry. After stepping down as dean in 2002...
As Summers’ presidency crumbled in the face of Faculty discontent, Knowles was a confidante of Houghton and a friend of the president’s critics. Though he stepped publicly into the fight only to suggest the formation of a committee to negotiate between the Faculty and Summers...
It was Houghton who ultimately played the decisive role in ousting Summers, and Knowles was his closest adviser outside the University’s governing circle.
Summoned to steady the University after its fight with Summers, Knowles, and his longtime friend Bok, had a calming effect.
“It was tremendously stabilizing because Dean Knowles knew the affairs of the Faculty like no one else, quite literally.”