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...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?...
Spangler added that he felt Summers’ immediate successor, former University president Derek C. Bok, would steer the University well in the interim...
...Summers had a worthy vision but was unable to make that vision a reality. The former treasury secretary will soon be a president emeritus, and his seat at the center of the academic world will expire in four short months. We hope that the Corporation will appoint an able successor with the overflowing ambition that defined Summers’ brief presidency and has opened Harvard to the prospect of tremendous—and perhaps even unprecedented—progress...
...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...