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Nearing Loeb House, where the Board of Overseers had gathered to dub her Harvard’s president-elect, Drew Gilpin Faust paused and said, “I’d better kiss my husband.” The object of her affection, science historian Charles Rosenberg, told her...
William F. Lee ’72, an overseer who served on the search committee, said that one of Faust’s strengths—both as a candidate and in terms of governing the University—is her “ability to build relationships?...
The Board of Overseers, the group of 30 alumni who make up the University’s second-highest governing body, unanimously confirmed Drew Gilpin Faust as Harvard’s 28th president at a specially scheduled meeting yesterday. Twenty-two overseers were in attendance at the confirmation meeting, marking...
3:05 pm: Richard I. Melvoin '73, an Overseer and the headmaster of Belmont Hill School, exits Loeb House wearing a crimson tie laced with golden trees—the symbol of Radcliffe College.
3:10 pm: Frances D. Fergusson, an Overseer and member of the presidential search committee, tells a Crimson reporter that Faust spoke to the Overseers in Loeb House for 45 minutes before leaving the room for the unanimous confirmation vote. When she returned, according to Fergusson, Faust was greeted with...