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...Hall watchers, that Green wasn't enjoying his job, or that others were dissatisfied with the job he was doing. Word around the University now is that Green told President Neil L. Rudenstine in January that he wanted out. But as late as the end of last year, the Provost was rearranging the furniture in his office to make it look better...
Dismayed, because we like Jerry Green. He's a genuinely nice guy. He's quiet, modest, and above all, honest. Indeed, among administrators, Green is a rare breed--he says what he thinks. In just 21 months as Provost, the once and future economics professor has developed a reputation as the Rudenstine administration's most outspoken members, the one who isn't afraid to flout the party line...
...Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 alleged a link between Affirmative Action and grade inflation, Green issued a stern rebuke of the statement, even as the rest of the Harvard administration hemmed and hawed. In remarks that prompted one Harvard Law School professor to publicly call the Provost "wrong" and suggest he was speaking "the language of menace," Green suggested that free speech has its limits. "I can't tell you that if things got really out of hand, I wouldn't say, listen, what you're saying is really disruptive and I'd like you to stop...
...refused to call it a resignation, referring instead to Green's decision to "assume a distinguished, new professorship." For another thing, the announcement came late in the afternoon, and neither Green nor almost any of his Mass. Hall colleagues would comment on it. Moreover, almost nobody knew that the Provost was stepping down until the news release was issued--including Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman, chair of the department to which the Provost is supposed to return...
Most curious of all is that, to this day, neither Green, nor Rudenstine, nor anyone else has said why the Provost decided to return to active scholarship. Indeed, the outgoing Provost's odd silence on the issue marks a sharp--and, we must admit--somewhat suspicious contrast to the Jerry Green we know and like...