Word: pulpiteering
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Corlette said that she wasn’t sure how much of a focus Summers wanted to put on himself or how much he wants a bully pulpit. But she said that there is work to be done on how Harvard is perceived beyond Cambridge and said that communications is becoming “more and more of a concern...
Until last week, Bush had steered clear of the bully pulpit. He plays the man of action, not words, and has inherited his father's suspicion of gaudy soul searching. Where Bill Clinton seized every chance to open up his brain on national television, take you through every twist in his thought process, Bush has avoided every such opportunity. But that changed for a moment last week when he brought down the lights, turned up the volume and built the suspense around his decision, as if to say, I am a man capable of subtle thought, not just ideological reflex...
Summers’ first visit as president comes in the context of comments by friends and colleagues who have said that Summers is ideally suited to use the bully-pulpit of his position at Harvard. While Rudenstine spoke out on the national stage in measured ways, some at Harvard have said they hope that Summers could do so more vocally and more often...
Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit. Soft-spoken Rudenstine, more suited to the shadows than the limelight, leaves Harvard’s podium considerably diminished...
...weight. While they may no longer move markets, Summers’ words should be equally significant in the educational sphere. The president of Harvard has played a somewhat muted national role in recent decades, but Summers should not shrink from using Harvard’s presidency as a bully pulpit to speak on issues affecting the interests of the University and of the educational community. Summers should also consider the suggestion advanced on this page by his colleague Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76—-namely, that of making Harvard a truly global University. Summers’ time...