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...will be here for four years, I will be here until I die, and Harvard will be here forever," Geyser University Professor and former dean of the faculty Henry Rosovsky once told a group of undergraduates. It is this attitude that drives the Corporation, the seven-man all-white governing board which technically owns all of Harvard, to exclude students from any major decisions affecting the University...
Despite a change in composition the overseers still remain the junior governing body to the seven-man Harvard Corporation. Both groups have in recent years turned over their more hands-on involvement in Harvard affairs and taken a long-range policymaking role...
According to former University Treasurer and Corporation member George Putnam '49, an increasingly complicated array of medical schools and hospitals under Harvard's wing may prompt the seven-man board to look at a medical expert for the board...
Although such issues would not be sent to the Legislature without prior approval by the Overseers and the seven-man Corporation, the University's other governing body, the need to obtain legislative approval has in the past been a stumbling block to major changes...
That tradition ended in 1985 when Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky became a member of the seven-man body. Rosovsky, a man who has donned many different hats during his 27-year Harvard career, still bears the distinction of being the only working Harvard professor on the Corporation, its newest member and the one with the most student and faculty contact...