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Samuel Eliot Morison’s Three Centuries of Harvard, published in 1936, sheds light on the two instances—both centuries ago—in Harvard’s history where a president did cave to pressure from his constituents and resign...
...College student body’s full-scale desertion of the campus in 1675, partly in response to Hoar’s allowance of cruel beatings of disobedient students, left Hoar no choice but to resign. More than 100 yearss later, the students petitioned the Corporation for Langdon’s removal, writing, “as a President, we despise you.” Langdon promptly submitted his resignation...
...Crimson poll of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) conducted over the past four days, 32 percent of 280 faculty respondents said they think University President Lawrence H. Summers should resign. Fifty-five percent said they think he should not, and 13 percent said they did not know...
...think Summers should resign...
...make his administration more transparent and welcoming of advice and criticism. We explicitly and fervently call on the faculty to avoid holding a vote of no confidence at next Tuesday’s special meeting. With the Corporation almost surely behind President Summers, the chances that he would ever resign are slim, especially when Summers has so many unfinished tasks in Allston and in other areas of his responsibility. Neither would we in any way support his resignation, for these very reasons...