Harvard and Summers in
of Neil Rudenstein
presidential power and
of Summers at Treasury Department
of Summers’s dispute with Cornel West
Memorial Church
Menand, Louis
Mendelsohn, Everett
men’s clubs, Harvard
mental health issues
Mexican financial crisis
Meyssan, Thierry
military recruitment issue
Mitchell, Robert
money, Harvard and, See also endowment;
fundraising
Moore, John
morality, economics and
moral relativism
Morgan, Marcyliena
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morning Prayers talks
Morris, Dick
Morris Gray Lecture
Morrison, Toni
movies, Harvard in
murder-suicide event
Muslim students
naked student ritual
National Science Foundation
New, Lisa (Elisa)
New Republic, The
New York Times
1960s influence on Harvard
Nobel Prizes
O’Brien, Patricia
office hours
Ogletree, Charles
Oldenburg, Richard
O’Mary, Michael
O’Neill, Jackie
Overseers. See Board of Overseers
Page, Shaun
Palmer, Brian
Paretzky, Johanna
patriotism, Summers’s
Paulin, Thomas Neilson
peace rally
Pearson, Carl
Peretz, Martin
Perry, Victoria. See Summers, Victoria Perry
personal sacrifices, Summers’s
Pinker, Steven
Plunkett, David Jonathan
politics
Harvard and
identity
Summers and, (see also leadership style, Summers’s)
Summers on Harvard and
tenure, academic freedom, and
Cornel West and
policy memo scandal
popular culture, Harvard in
popularity, Summers’s
Posner, Richard
Powell, Colin
Powell, Colleen Richards
Powell, Lewis F.
power, Summers’s, See also leadership style, Summers’s
presidential search, Harvard’s
Board of Overseers, Harvard Corporation, and
interview and selection of Summers
interview of Lee Bollinger and secrecy issue
search committee and selection of candidates
student protest and
presidents, Harvard. See Bok, Derek; presidential search, Harvard’s; Pusey, Nathan Marsh; Rudenstine Neil; Summers, Lawrence Henry
curricular review and
installation of
powers of
success of
presidents, university
presidents, United States
President’s Chair
press. See media coverage
Primal Scream ritual
Princeton University
Pritchett, Lant
professors. See faculty
Progressive Student Labor Movement
protest literature class, See also dissent, Summers and; student protest
provost appointment
publications, Harvard
Pusey, Nathan Marsh
questioners, Summers and
Quigley, Ellen
race, See also affirmative action; African Americans; anti-Semitism; Jewish ethnicity
Radcliff College
Rakoczy, Kate L.
rape
Rawls, John
Red Book
Reich, Robert
Reischauer, Robert
relationships, romantic. See romantic relationships, Summers’s
Republicans
research grants
Rice, Condoleezza
Richardson, H. H.
Rimer, Sara
rituals, Harvard
Robinson, Mary
romantic relationships, Summers’s
Laura Ingraham
Lisa New
Victoria Perry Summers
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rosovsky, Henry
ROTC issue
Roth, William
Rothenberg, James
Rowe, Peter
Rubin, Robert
Rudenstein, Neil
Allston and
breakdown of
disappointment with
early career of
fundraising of
Skip Gates and
leadership style of
resignation of
student protest and
Summers vs.
Cornel West and
Russell, J. Hale
Sacks, Peter
Safdie, Moshe
Samuelson, Couper
Samuelson, Frank
Samuelson, Paul
Sandel, Michael
Scadden, David
scandal, World Bank memo
Schneider, Carol Geary
scholarship, Summers’s
School of Public Health and School of Education
sciences
curricular review and
general education vs.
presidential search and
Summers and
search. See presidential search, Harvard’s
secrecy
Harry Lewis departure and
Harvard Corporation and
presidential search committee and
Summers’s
Senior English Address
September 11 terrorist attacks
Sever Hall
sex
sexual assault
sexual harassment comment
Sharpton, Al
Shinagel, Michael
sleeping, Summers’s
Smith, Marian
Society of Fellows
Solomon Amendment, Harvard and
specialization, curriculum
speeches. See also Morning Prayers talks
cancellation of Tom Paulin’s
style of Summers vs. Rudenstine
Zayed Yasin
Spencer, Clayton
Sperry, Willard
Stanford University
statue, John Harvard
Stauffer, John
Steele, Shelby
Steinberg, Jacques
Stem Cell Institute
Stiglitz, Joseph
Stone, Alan
Stone, Robert G., Jr.
student protest See also dissent Summers and
Derek Bok and
living wage campaign
peace rally
Nathan Pusey and
Summers and
students. See also student protest
African American
curricular review and
foreign
grade inflation issue
Harvard culture and
Jewish
Muslim
Summers and questions by
Cornel West’s departure and
study abroad
style. See leadership; leadership style Summers’s; manners, Summers’s
Subrahmanian, Krishnan
suicide, Marian Smith’s
Summers, Lawrence Henry. See also Harvard University
cancer of
at commencement in 2004
conflict with Cornel West (see African and African American Studies (Afro-American Studies); West Cornel)
dissent and (see dissent, Summers and)
family of
Harvard’s presidential search for (see presidential search, Harvard’s)
as Harvard student and professor
installation of, as Harvard president
Jewish ethnicity of
leadership style of (see leadership style Summers’s)
at MIT
Neil Rudenstine vs., (see also Rudenstine, Neil)
media coverage and (see media coverage)
romantic relationships (see romantic relationships, Summers’s)
student protest and
at Treasury Department
at World Bank
Summers, Robert and Anita
Summers, Ruth, Pamela, and Harry
Summers, Victoria Perry
sweatshop issue
table manners, Summers’s
Tadesse, Sinedu
Talbott, Strobe
Tanenhaus, Sam
tax cuts issue
teaching fellows
temper, Summers’s
tennis, Summers and
tenure
academic freedom issue and
Skip Gates and
presidential power and
Summers and Harvard
Summers and law school
women and
Tercentenary Theatre
terrorism
Thailand financial panic
Thomas, Richard
tradition, Summers and
Transition journal
Traub, James
Treasury Department, Summers at
Tribe, Laurence
tuition
Undergraduate Council
undergraduate education. See Harvard College
Undergraduate English Oration
United Arab Emirates
United States presidents
University Hall
university marshall
University of Michigan
University Professor position
Vendler, Helen
Washington Consensus
Washington style. See leadership style Summers’s
Wealth, See also endowment; fundraising; money
weight, Summers’s
Welch, Jack
West, Cornel
Afro-American Studies and reputation of
at Archie Epps’s funeral
departure of
hiring of
Timothy McCarthy and
Summers, globalization, and
tenure, academic freedom, and
Wetlaufer, Suzanne
Widener Memorial Library
Wieseltier, Leon
Will, George
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Willie, Charles
Wilson, James Q.
Wilson, William Julius
Winokur, Herbert “Pug,”
Wisse, Ruth
Wolcowitz, Jeffrey
Wolfensohn, James
women. See also romantic relationships Summers’s
final clubs and
Harvard and
Harvard Corporation and
presidential search and
Radcliff College and
Summers’s staff and
workers, Harvard
World Bank
world university, Harvard as
Wrinn, Joe
Yale-style housing system
Yale University
Yasin, Zayed
Yauch, Adam
Zayed, Sheik
Zedillo, Ernesto
Zemin, Jiang
Ziemes, George
Photo Insert
Harvard Law School dean Derek Bok became president in 1971 and inherited an angry and divided campus.
(© Corbis/Bennett)
Twenty-year-old Lawrence Summers in his 1975 yearbook photo from MIT, where he was captain of the debate team.
(Courtesy of the Technique)
As Harvard president from 1991 to 2001, Neil Rudenstine raised $2.6 billion but was criticized for devoting too much time to fundraising.
(Nicola Kountoupes/Cornell University Photography)
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West were part of Rudenstine’s “dream team” of African American scholars but were resented by some members of the Harvard faculty.
(Republished with permission of Globe Newspaper Company, Inc.)
Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in front of dollar bills bearing his signature. At Harvard, Summers would autograph bills for eager students.
(AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
“A new kind of geopolitician”: Summers in the White House briefing room with Clinton economic advisers Gene Sperling (center) and Jack Lew in July 1999.
(AP Photo/Doug Mills)
Now president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger was said to be the faculty’s favorite to be Harvard’s twenty-seventh president.
(Courtesy of Columbia University)
“I accept!” Lawrence Summers at a March 11, 2001, press conference at Harvard’s Loeb House to announce his selection as president.
(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
Lawrence Summers with U2 singer Bono at a Harvard dinner in June 2001. The two men had met to discuss the issue of international debt relief while Summers was at the Treasury Department.
(Lesley Unruh)
Cornel West with freshmen at Princeton University in the fall of 2002. After leaving Harvard due to an altercation with Summers, West taught a Princeton seminar called “The Tragic, the Comic, and the Political.”
(Courtesy of Cornel West)
Harry Lewis, the dean of Harvard College until March 2003, clashed with Summers over the college’s direction—and lost.
(Justin Haan/Harvard Crimson)
Memorial Church pastor Peter Gomes, here speaking at the Boston State House in February 2004, worried that Harvard’s new president didn’t appreciate the importance of spiritual life on campus.
(Brian M. Haas/Harvard)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Bill Kirby, here in his University Hall office, was charged with leading Harvard’s curricular review, but some wondered if Summers wasn’t really calling the shots.
(Brian M. Haas/Harvard)
Mathematician Benedict Gross replaced Harry Lewis as dean of Harvard College in a spring 2003 shake-up and soon reported feeling “overwhelmed.”
(David E. Stein/Harvard)
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, co-teacher of “American Protest Literature, from Tom Paine to Tupac,” speaking at a rally against the war in Iraq on March 20, 2003.
(Courtesy of Timothy Patrick McCarthy)
William Kirby, Lawrence Summers, and Benedict Gross sing “Fair Harvard” at the freshman opening exercises in September 2003.
(David E. Stein/Harvard Crimson)
Lecturer Brian Palmer, shown here teaching in the spring of 2004, thought that Summers was making Harvard more competitive and materialistic.
(Courtesy of Brian Palmer)
Lawrence Summers celebrating his third commencement as president of Harvard on June 10, 2004.
(AP Photos)
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The former executive editor of George magazine, RICHARD BRADLEY is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and the New Republic. A graduate of Yale College who received his A.M. in American history from Harvard, Bradley lives in New York City.
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