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...sources of funding. In recent months, University administrators have taken steps to ensure that terms of such agreements are flexible enough to accommodate its beneficiaries, whose needs will likely change over time. Donations frequently come with strings attached. A fund, for instance, may be specifically intended to endow a professorship in Korean studies. Harvard officials are now reevaluating whether restrictive agreements signed in the past can be renegotiated to match available resources with current needs. “We now have a more systematic process, since there ought to be a mechanism to scrutinize endowments,” Dominguez said...
...history of legal education. Caspersen’s death comes at a time when his fund-raising abilities may have been most needed for the Law School when academic institutions around the country are facing challenges in raising funds. Law School Professor Charles Fried, who holds an endowed professorship, lamented Caspersen’s passing in an e-mail statement to The Crimson and said he “appreciated his warm and engaged generosity to Harvard Law School and its work.” Even after his death, Caspersen’s presence will continue to be felt...
...bovine guest was the charge of Harvey G. Cox Jr., Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, who brought her as part of an afternoon-long celebration of his retirement. In doing so, he revived a practice not observed since Edward Wigglesworth—the first to hold the Hollis professorship in 1722—and his son, who succeeded him, first brought their livestock out to graze. Cox retired this past June after 44 years at the Harvard Divinity School, where his position was the oldest endowed chair in the country, and where he established a reputation...
...back to the Greeks—beginning with the fifth century B.C.E. Sophists, or even earlier. Long ago, thinkers highly valued verbal persuasion and deemed it a central facet of education. The field of rhetoric changed and developed during Roman rule and onward, until Harvard itself established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in 1806. It was Francis J. Child, the second professor to hold the position, who shifted the job once and for all toward literature and away from public speaking. Now, Harvard’s commitment to rhetoric is almost nothing more than a memory...
...week. O’Sullivan, an expert on Middle Eastern politics who served as a special assistant to president George W. Bush and helped implement the Bush administration’s surge strategy in the Iraq war, has been appointed as a professor of practice. The five-year renewable professorship generally is given to those with extensive political or diplomatic experience outside of academics. “Meghan brings a combination of a really rare intelligence with practical, on the ground experience,” said Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75. “What...