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KNOWING KNOWLES
Bok said that the search for Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s replacement—which ended Monday when Bok named Jeremy R. Knowles interim dean—has been “perhaps the most time-consuming thing I’ve been involved in?...
For his part, Knowles on Monday expressed a Cincinnatus-like attitude to Bok’s selection.
But Harry R. Lewis ’68, dean of the College under Knowles and an outspoken critic of Summers, on Monday called Bok’s decision “a great appointment.”
“It didn’t escape my notice that I might be vulnerable to an approach, so of course I assembled self-interested arguments against that,” Knowles said. “It’s hard, when faced with such a generous institutionalist like...