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Statistics and alumni reports show that what students remember about their time at Harvard is nonacademic life, Lewis wrote.
More recently, in a February memo Lewis wrote to those heading up the curricular review—including Summers and Kirby—he offered a scathing indictment of the view that increasing intellectual rigor ought to be the priority in revamping the College experience.
“Summers thought that Lewis worked for him, and Lewis thought of himself as more of an independent dean and Faculty member,” one official said.
Efforts to channel students’ interests in extracurriculars back into academia would be a mistake, Lewis wrote. The Faculty’s decision last year to reinforce what Lewis called “scholarly individualism” through limiting honors was problematic as well.
Both members of Faculty Council, a committee of 18 professors who routinely advise the dean, and the House Masters who Lewis directly oversees, were ignorant of the impending overhaul until this weekend.