Word: pulpits
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...take the University in daring directions. Five years later, Summers is leaving Mass. Hall, having lost the Corporation’s support after frequent tussles with a Faculty affronted by his leadership style. But during his tenure, Summers for a time did as the Corporation had hoped, using his pulpit to extend Harvard’s international reach, push for a more rigorous undergraduate curriculum, and endorse a bolder vision for Allston development. Summers’ roadmap for the University, professors and administrators say, will be completed by future Harvard presidents. In a way, Summers’ agenda...
...addition to offering input on the details of the review, professors say Bok and Incoming Interim Faculty dean Jeremy R. Knowles will be able to use their clout to broadcast the review’s message.The report “needs use of the bully pulpit of the president and dean to articulate not just for the faculty but for the College and for people outside of Harvard what the [general education] principles are all about,” Menand says. Gordon says he agrees that Bok and Knowles’s involvement could be significant...
...respect for critical feedback, and the scrupulous avoidance of conflicts of interest are indispensable.Enter Larry Summers. The 1991 “toxic waste” memo that Summers signed while World Bank chief economist was worrisome enough. But Summers’ muscular display at Harvard’s bully pulpit replaced our worry with fear. Soon after 9/11, Summers delivered a speech urging the University to be more patriotic and directing the Kennedy School to give its next public service award to a military official. Such a demand smacks of McCarthyism and threatens the indispensable principle of scholarship: that evidence...
...Learning to be Silent” perfectly complements Ethel’s (Caitlin Smythe) and Vi’s (Francesca S. Serritella ’08) ethereal voices.The set, designed by Malone and Owings, is simple but effective—a couple of benches and a pulpit for the church, a set of lockers for the high school, a poker table and couch for the Reverend’s living room. But the set changes are no less impressive because of this simplicity—the props are moved off and on the stage so quickly and efficiently amidst music...
...being in other dealings," says Andy Wicks, co-director of the University of Virginia's Olsson Center for Applied Ethics. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management points to the tarnish Swanson leaves on Raytheon, which the CEO had "no problem using as a bully pulpit from which to trumpet his empty clich?...