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And while that sense created an atmosphere ripe for pranks—Worth remembers sneaking into Moses’ office to set all his furniture facing the wrong way—Moses did not shy away from the gravitas that sometimes came with the disciplinary part of his job.
Moses also championed the improvement of diversity in the College.
“We have tried to damp down sexism, racism, classism, veneration of old Harvard for the wrong reasons by laughing at it whenever we’ve seen it,” Moses told The Crimson in 1991.
“We failed,” Moses said. “In spite of all of it, there are still persons of color who don’t feel like they own the place, women who feel alienated, and people who feel they have to compromise themselves too...
Moses was not reluctant to take a role in the intellectual life of the College. A graduate of Princeton, the future dean earned a doctoral degree in English from Cornell in 1968, and would garner teaching experience at Princeton, Cornell, and the University of Virginia before coming to Harvard, where...