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“I was a very young 18,” Knowles said of his first experience as an officer in a 1997 interview with The Crimson. “I had a funny hat on, so they saluted me, but some sergeants were as old as my father...
One of the most prominent figures at Harvard in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, though he often evoked an earlier age, Knowles served as dean of the Faculty from 1991 until 2002, bringing its budget out of a deficit and expanding the campus in Cambridge. In a coda...
That modest assessment was as elegant as it was untrue. His return to University Hall in 2006 was something of a victory lap as Knowles enjoyed the fruits of his previous turn as dean: a much larger Faculty, two new buildings for Harvard’s political scientists, and a...
When Knowles was at his finest, hand-written notes from the dean blanketed Cambridge like leaves in the fall. Each letter frequently contained a stick figure scribbled on the page, either expressing appreciation or dismay. Other times the Mozart fan would sketch violins.
Born on April 28, 1935 in the market town of Rugby, England, Jeremy Randall Knowles lived through wartime days spent in cellars, taking refuge from German bombs. The boy who hid in the kitchen during blitz attacks grew into a leader of soldiers, entering the Royal Air Force at 18...