Word: resignment
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...moment of common humility—I am, I realize, ideally situated to lecture on this particular virtue—will convince us all that any attempt to define Harvard along exclusionary lines is a radical affront to our complex undergraduate population. Until then, I shall simply have to resign myself to the fact that a strong college community simply doesn’t exist at Harvard. Paul R. Katz ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Hurlbut Hall...
...overseers contacted by The Crimson the night before the announcement said that they had not yet received word that Summers planned to resign...
Summers has said he made his decision to resign on Wednesday, Feb. 15 and informed members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing board, that same day. But for five days thereafter, while Summers skied in Utah and the campus buzzed with speculation, members of the Board of Overseers received no official word from Harvard...
...Overseers’ president, Patti B. Saris ’73, said that she was told last Monday afternoon about Summers’ intention to resign—just a day before he made his plans public...
...Meanwhile, defying a ban on street rallies and occasionally scuffling with riot police, thousands of protesters marched to the EDSA Shrine Friday afternoon. One group of 5,000 was led by former President Aquino, who called on Arroyo to "make the supreme sacrifice" and resign. That's unlikely?Arroyo has told Time in the past that "nothing" would make her resign. But a real risk exists that in declaring emergency rule on the eve of the People Power anniversary, the President may have overplayed her hand and given her fractured opposition a unifying cause. "It could result in more political...