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...Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches a course on the history of Harvard, says the Overseers?? passivity has contributed to their impotence. “My impression is that they have colluded in their own emasculation,” he says...
...Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, writes in an e-mail that he does not foresee changes in the Overseers?? role “in any formal sense...
...Pusey declared that Harvard needed $40 million—the equivalent of $287.5 million today—to meet the “building needs” of just those currently enrolled at the University.Pusey’s remarks came only one year after the publication of an Overseers?? report that advocated the expansion of the College—both in infrastructure and undergraduate enrollment—in response to the rising number of applicants. “It will not do to say that Harvard College will concentrate on quality of education as a problem separate...
...Overseers?? president, Patti B. Saris ’73, said that she was told last Monday afternoon about Summers’ intention to resign—just a day before he made his plans public...
...member of the Board of Overseers??one of the University’s two governing bodies—from 1989 to 1995, Lithgow conceived of and led the push culminating in the establishment of Harvard’s annual Arts First weekend in 1993, and he returns to Harvard each year for the event. Harvard’s Arts First medal, awarded to a University graduate who has made a significant contribution to the arts, is also a brainchild of Lithgow?...