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...only encouraged, but is essential because the greatest danger is that something will be left unsaid, not that something unpleasant will be uttered.It is in this light that I offer this modest helping of eminently practical rules for the coming Harvard University President to obey. Follow these, successor to Summers, and you will live out a happy and unmolested presidency. 1) Never Antagonize the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It does not matter whether you are right or wrong. It does not matter that you were merely trying to start a conversation that was long overdue. The University President does...
...ambitious goals," he wrote last week in a letter announcing his resignation. Summers' view that he had inherited a university with urgent problems is in part a way of justifying the highly undiplomatic way he conducted himself as president, but he's hardly alone in his view. His temporary successor, former Harvard president Derek Bok, is about as different from Summers as it is possible to get. He's one of the world's least gaffe-prone people and a staunchly mainstream liberal, where Summers is liberal in a way that makes the conservatives on the faculty swoon...
...Lawrence H. Summers’ tenure at Harvard is that Summers put forward a superb vision for Harvard’s future, but he could do no more than begin the implementation of that vision. In the months ahead, the Harvard Corporation will have the opportunity to choose a successor and to set the future of the University. If the Corporation commits itself to the best parts of Summers’ legacy, then these past five years will be remembered, not as tragedy, but as the first part of a great renewal of this great university. If instead, the Corporation?...
...Nye’s successor, Ellwood, agreed that Bok will make a particularly good interim president...
Summers wrote in his own open letter yesterday that one of the greatest challenges facing his successor will be uniting the University, particularly in such endeavors as the Allston expansion...