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...Neill said that Faust’s approach to the installation speech fits with the way she has spent her first few months as president...
...It’s hard enough to write these speeches without having people either offering you advice or asking you where you are in the speech, or what you’re doing,” Rudenstine said...
Lawrence H. Summers paced uneasily in the basement of the president’s mansion six years ago, rehearsing his installation speech for the final time...
...Bok’s speech, less than 900 words long, would be dwarfed by the grandeur of Rudenstine’s and the exuberance of Summers’. Delivered to just 110 people in the grand Faculty Room of University Hall, Bok’s reserve hinted at the tumult that had occupied the University—and that room itself—only a few years before...
...speech in 1991, Rudenstine called Harvard “venerable,” “magical,” and “enduring.” The former Princeton provost said this week that he used that occasion to respond to the conservative assault on the academy in the 1980s. Much of the speech was a history, tracing the ideas of American education that gave birth to the research university of the late 20th century...