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...with presidents who understand that their comments must be blander than my four-month-old child’s rice cereal. Controversy can create difficulties, and if avoiding controversy is more important than intellectual discourse, then the University would be better served by a genial figurehead than by a scholar-president...
...confident that most members of the Harvard community share my belief that nothing is more important than our intellectual mission and the free exchange of ideas. I think that it is enormously valuable to this intellectual mission that we have a true scholar leading our academic community. I find it remarkable that our president is one of the most intellectually-engaged people that I have ever known, and I think that Harvard’s eminence in the world of ideas is greatly strengthened by having this kind of leadership...
...process of scholarship. This involvement sends a clear message to our students and to the world that scholarship is an exciting vocation and that the world of ideas, which all of us love, is a joyful world that must be cherished and supported. The enthusiasm of our scholar-president for teaching and research sends an unmistakable signal to the world that scholarship is precious and that what we do is important...
Beyond the legal world, Posner is renowned as a prolific and insightful scholar: he is the author of more than 30 books, and—according to one list—number 70 on the list of most frequently-cited public intellectuals alive. (Granted, Posner did compile the list himself...
Whitesides, who chaired the department of chemistry and chemical biology from 1986 to 1989, and won the National Medal of Science in 1998, becomes the second scholar on the current Rohm and Haas board of directors. He joins Gilbert S. Omenn, a professor at the University of Michigan...