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...With the victory, Patrick—who once sat on Harvard’s 30-member Board of Overseers??€”capped off an unlikely candidacy that began in April...
...students. We know they are busy and are aware that the selection of a president is many months away. But the time to act is now. The nine-member search committee—made up of the six members of the Corporation and three members of the Board of Overseers??€”has decided to focus on gathering student input during the next month. Before choosing a discrete list of candidates, the search committee wants to know what principles should guide their selection, and student input will play a key role in formulating those principles. Should our new president...
Since then, however, the Overseers??€™ attempts to assert themselves forcefully in Harvard politics have often faltered, particularly after the Second World...
...Overseers, following up on reports made in the wake of Harvard’s crisis of governance in the late 1960s, established the so-called Gilbert Committee, which considered three subjects: whether changes should be made to the Overseers??€™ visitation process, whether the Board’s selection process was appropriate, and whether the Overseers should continue to exist...
Many fellows, the Kellers write, felt overwhelmed by the Corporation’s vast and disorganized administrative processes. Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, who had previously served as the Board of Overseers??€™ president, declared in his second year as a Corporation fellow, “I’m sick and tired of being tossed a bowl of untreated sewage to consider for the next meeting...