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...about the Harvard presidency—as if the shakeup at Mass. Hall were the most important thing ever to happen in higher education. But what’s different, exactly, now that Summers is leaving? As the columnists preach on about all the brokenhearted undergrads mourning at the President??s feet, actual Harvard students—that is, not hypothetical ones—don’t seem to care at all. Their reaction, or lack thereof, is historically consistent with the rest of Summers’ five-year stint, during which most students only perked...
Long before the Harvard President??s Chair took up residence in the Fogg’s collection, it stood in the library where students at the then all-male institution maintained a convenient tradition: If an unsuspecting young woman touring campus sat down, her host had the right to a kiss. It’s safe to say that Larry Summers has seen his share of surprises (though of a different sort) since his installation in October 2001, and as he takes the seat for a final time at Commencement this June, the question of its next occupant...
...leadership after a regular weekend meeting. Although Krauss said he would not characterize his decision as “if Harvard did it, so can we,” he acknowledged that the close timing makes comparison unavoidable. The news from Cambridge indicates that faculty can influence the university president??s behavior, Krauss said. And his discontent is not unique on Case’s campus. “Everyone’s counting noses now,” said Case Associate Professor of History and Law Kenneth F. Ledford. “But there certainly...
Watching Lawrence Summers, who took over the year after I graduated, helped drain a good deal of my cynicism toward Harvard. The late 1990s was a period of great wealth-making in America, and it was clear to me as both a reporter and a student that the president??s chief duty was to net as much money for the University as possible, rather than tend to the deficiencies in Harvard’s classrooms. Summers, in contrast, was an “ideas” president, who took Harvard’s mission as a place...
Surely, The Crimson’s editors are not suggesting that two former deans under Harvard’s justly famous FAS are “second rate” and deserving of Mr. Summers’ open disdain? Allow me to suggest that your president??s behavior towards them and others is quite uncivilized...