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...Luckily, I have colleagues and students who point out my errors. If we are to have a scholar-president, we must treat his false hypotheses in the same way that we treat the false hypotheses of our colleagues and in the same way that we would expect our own mistaken ideas to be treated. We must vigorously refute his errors with compelling evidence but not with personal attacks. And just as we cherish our colleagues who make themselves vulnerable by the extent of their intellectual engagement, we should also cherish a president who loves the process of scientific inquiry...
When our president stumbles as a result of his ardor for knowledge, we should empirically refute his error, but at the same time champion his engagement with scholarship. I would rather see Harvard led by an occasionally mistaken scholar, who stands for and loves what we do, than by a fund-raising bureaucrat who protects himself from error by avoiding intellectual discourse...
...prerogatives against an energetic, if sometimes abrasive, President who was trying to press for change in many domains where it was badly needed. Some would say that the Faculty, rather than engaging in spirited debate about a controversial hypothesis that may (as he himself suggested) be overstated or mistaken, instead will not tolerate utterances by the President that surely fall within the bounds of academic inquiry—hardly an attractive image for a university whose motto is “Veritas.” Those characterizations would not, as I have tried to indicate, be a complete picture...
...those who would suddenly hop down off the Harvard bandwagon on the basis of just one unfortunate showing are sorely mistaken in exaggerating the importance of Northeastern’s victory, which was, as far as the standings go, nothing more than a non-conference loss. Obviously such results are to be avoided whenever possible, but each is, when viewed individually, by no means a deal-breaker...
...might be as outnumbered as Jews or Muslims--and that the meager church life that did exist wouldn't engage his 14-year-old son. Instead, the Liuzzos are attending standing-room-only services like St. Mark's teen Mass, complete with a pop-music ensemble that could be mistaken for one of the area's rollicking Christian rock bands. "This I was not prepared for," says Liuzzo, who flashes a smile at a recent service as an altar girl marches a crucifix past 1,000 parishioners...