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...poor monetary policy for exacerbating the Depression—Bernanke famously said, “Regarding the Great Depression, you are right, we did it. We are very sorry.” After finishing graduate school, Bernanke held teaching positions at MIT and Stanford Business School before taking a professorship at Princeton, where he would eventually ascend to the chairmanship of the economics department. There, he built a reputation for consensus-building and for the ability to manage contentious committees, skills that likely translated well to his current duties as chair of the Federal Open Market Committee...
...Eliot House dining hall Monday to celebrate a new initiate.Former University President Lawrence H. Summers arrived nine minutes after the event’s scheduled start time, and was swiftly rewarded with testaments from students who took the podium to recall the high points of his presidency and professorship. The recollections ranged from Summers’ work on financial aid, to his support for undergraduate student events, to the famous appearances at student dances that marked his tenure in the University’s top spot.The event featured no prepared remarks from Summers—who said he would leave...
...Former University President Lawrence H. Summers arrived nine minutes after the event’s scheduled start time, and was swiftly rewarded with testaments from students who took the podium to recall the high points of his presidency and professorship. The recollections ranged from Summers' work on financial aid, to his support for undergraduate student events, to the famous appearances at student dances that marked his tenure in the University’s top spot...
...younger Royall, who served on an administrative committee at Harvard, would later donate over 2,100 acres of land to Harvard, and also leave funds to establish what is now the Royall Professorship of Law, the first endowed chair at the Law School...
...Kagan, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, now holds the Charles Hamilton Houston professorship, named for the legendary civil rights attorney—and mentor to Marshall—who is known as “the man who killed Jim Crow,” according to Manegold...