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...running, the Corporation turned to its fail-safe backup: Bok. For Houghton, who himself had reprised his role as chairman and chief executive of the glassworks and fiber-optics maker Corning in 2002 after a six-year hiatus, Bok seemed reliable, according to a source who spoke with Houghton. The only thing left to do was to convince a 75-year-old man to leave the beaches of Florida for a bitterly divided university in Massachusetts...
Molly C. Wilson ’06 was out when the red phone in her dorm room rang. “Is Molly there?” asked the caller, who spoke in a voice that is well-known around campus. When Wilson returned, her roommate told her, “Oh my God, Larry just called!” University President Lawrence H. Summers had phoned to say he thought “Shaniqua,” a flash animation created by Wilson, was funny. (Summers, through a spokesman, confirmed that he had called Wilson...
...major public statement emerged from the group. About two dozen former and current department heads wrote to the six-member panel charged with finding a replacement for Conrad K. Harper [see page 11], who had stepped down from the Harvard Corporation due to disagreements with Summers. The chairs spoke of “the atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion that has been created over the past four years” of Summers’ leadership. They called for the new Corporation member to have “a close affiliation with the academic world.” At a late...
...specific figures, the majority of gifts made to the fund are unrestricted, according to Sarah J. Friedell, director of media relations for the office.Despite its name, the College Fund is ultimately in the hands of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).One Harvard administrator, who spoke on condition of anonymity so that he could speak freely on internal matters, calls the HCF’s pitch to alums “borderline fraudulent,” explaining that because the dean of FAS answers to the Faculty, he does not prioritize undergraduate life concerns...
Archibald MacLeish, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor at Harvard, spoke at Commencement in 1955. He said, “The rock on which the greatest universities are founded is the rock of change, the recognition of the fact of change, and Harvard has not forgotten, nor has it ceased in its actions, to affirm, that the future will be won by those who are capable of creating the future, not by those who undertake to defend the present...