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...Though Summers only resigned only yesterday, his loss, in some sense, has been more gradual. His initiatives, by and large, have been in a rut for the greater part of the last year. It has become increasingly apparent over the last week that Summers??€™ departure was inevitable. Whether it was a conspicuous lack of support from the Harvard Corporation amidst the latest Faculty flurry or, more likely, a worn president, his vigor faded, no longer willing to defend himself against the barbs of an uncompromising segment of the Faculty, Summers could no longer effectively make progress...
...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...
...Summers??€™ critics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have often chastised Summers for making inconsistent statements to the Faculty...
Some professors have cried foul over Summers??€™ conduct regarding the investment scandal implicating Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, who is a longtime friend of Summers...
Despite the differences between the two men, members of the Harvard community contacted by The Crimson—including Summers??€™ longtime supporters—universally offered praise yesterday for Bok and the Corporation’s decision to appoint...