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Throughout all, Knowles remained a political operator. Gomes, a fixture of Harvard’s leading power circles, described the former amateur dancer as having “a certain kind of nimbleness, both physical and intellectual.”
While Knowles made his career as a chemist, he was at home in academic disciplines far from the lab.
He kept a hand puppet of a fighting nun in his desk drawer for special occasions. Vincent J. Tompkins, a former academic dean who served under Knowles, recalled one Saturday afternoon when the dean dropped to his knees to entertain Tompkins’ children with the puppet.
On Halloween night 1993, Knowles greeted a coterie of trick-or-treating Crimson staffers at his Francis Street home with two signs, one reading “Let the Dean R.I.P.” and another that questioned the paper’s credibility. “The Crimson,?...
For many working in University Hall, Knowles grew to be more a friend than a boss. He would force colleagues out of the building to go home to their families, while he stayed late to work.