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Final clubs played a prominent role in previous presidents?? Harvard days. Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, was a member of the oldest of the final clubs, the Porcellian. But his fifth cousin Franklin Delano, Class of 1904, was blocked from joining the Porcellian when an upperclassmen “blackballed” his membership bid, according the University’s website...
...Over Presidents?? Day Weekend, which began on Friday, Feb. 18, 2005, Summers held a series of conference calls with key members of his staff, the Corporation, and the Faculty, according to two people who were briefed on the calls...
...faculty ranks. “While considerable progress has been made since 2001, we acknowledge that there are still significant steps to be taken toward making academic careers compatible with family caregiving responsibilities,” the presidents wrote. The statement came nearly ten months after three of the presidents??Stanford’s John Hennessy, MIT’s Susan Hockfield, and Princeton’s Shirley Tilghman—penned an op-ed for The Boston Globe that appeared to criticize Summers’ now infamous remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude?...
...sign of surging executive compensation, five university presidents?? salaries surpassed $1 million dollars, and nine earned more than $900,000—a figure none reached in last year’s Chronicle report...
Last spring, around the time of the tenth Celebration, seven of the 10 past presidents??the “Honorables”—gathered from all around the country to shoot the breeze and discuss the organization. Busy in their careers as doctors, i-bankers, and band leaders, the Honorables still care about the brotherhood. Filled with wistful pride, the alums could not hide their amazement at how far the BMF had grown in the last 10 years. But it’s what’s coming that the alums have their eyes...