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Yesterday’s ouster of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 and the reorganization that it accompanies may signal a change in the College’s priorities—shifting emphasis to academics at the price of extracurricular activities.
Gone will be Lewis, who stresses extracurricular activity as the major strength of the College, and subsumed will be his top-level position, which was solely responsible for non-academic matters.
University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said the reorganization decision was Kirby’s alone. But with Lewis gone, Summers will have an administration united behind his goals for revamping the College.
According to a number of observers, Lewis has clashed with Summers in the year-and-a-half the president has been in office. The issues, one official said, have been “partly style and partly substance.”
During his tenure, Lewis oversaw significant reorganization within his office and emphasized the need to improve undergraduate advising.