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...president??s pay provoked a protest this past July from then-Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper. “In my judgment, your 2004-2005 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatever,” Harper said in his resignation letter...
...advocate an early move.” McCartney also said she hoped to make increasing financial aid and fellowships a top priority of her tenure. Summers’ permanent appointment of McCartney prompted a spontaneous standing ovation of the GSE faculty, according to professors present at the outgoing president??s announcement. “As I said to the Ed School faculty today, some choices a Harvard president makes are hard. This one was easy,” Summers said last night. “I really think she’s the best person...
...resources and our moment in history demand commensurate imagination, daring, and a readiness to think boldly and big.”Having refrained from offering his own opinion throughout the Faculty’s debates in the past year, Summers seized his last meeting in the president??s chair to restate his ambitions for Harvard. And in veiled terms, he chastised the Faculty for alleged recalcitrance in the face of the changes he aggressively sought to make.“There is only one important question on which history will judge us,” Summers said...
Lawrence H. Summers chaired his last Faculty meeting as University president yesterday. Below, a look back at Summers’ years in the University Hall president??s chair...
...were wasted, or when the notion that undergraduates would indulge in late-night food if the College made it available flew over administrators’ heads. Indeed, change at Harvard rarely comes quickly. But we forget that change has been made. After all our complaints about concert debacles, the President??s Office opened up its money chest to bring us Ben Folds, which turned out to be a fun—and free—event. Though it often took a student push to get there, we now have a 24-hour library and a soon-to-come...