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...force in the University’s administration, with oversight of all of Harvard’s academic programs as well as the expansion into Allston.The most high-profile Harvard insider whose name has been mentioned is Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, a former president of Duke University and Wellesley College and a member of the presidential search committee.Keohane, however, told The Boston Globe in March that she is “not available” for Harvard’s top job.“I want to tell people to please stop putting me on the lists...
...brushfires Summers had ignited across the University deeply disturbed some Corporation members. Keohane, who herself had served as president of Wellesley College and Duke University, was a leader of the push to bring the Summers era to a close, according to the source close to the Corporation...
...He’s not a native of Cambridge—in fact, he was born and raised in the affluent, lily-white suburb of Wellesley, Mass. And after high school, he left the Boston area entirely. First he attended the University of Rochester on a Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship. Then he served for more than four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, trekking as far as Malaysia and the Philippines...
...used their ego to cover their inadequacies, and one that was “genuinely superior,” into which category he placed himself. McGovern gave the example of when his daughter was deciding where to go to university, and he asked Galbraith what the difference was between Wellesley and Harvard. “‘Well,’ he snorted, ‘at Harvard if you’re lucky you might get Galbraith once a week. At Wellesley you get one of my C- students three times a week...
DIED. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, dynamic Wellesley College economist credited with upping the number of women in economics and business by inspiring her students to enter those male-dominated fields and helping to produce what the New York Times in 1995 called the "Wellesley factor"; in Arlington...