February 24, 2006
The Fall of Summers: Lawrence Summers Never Won Over Harvard's Faculty, and That Cost Him His Job
Academe reverberated this week with the news that Lawrence H. Summers had resigned as president of Harvard University.
People inside Harvard and out wondered what the episode said about the question of whether an outspoken president can ever lead the nation's most famous university. And they wondered about the power afforded faculty members at Harvard. For in the end, it was the professors' vociferous complaints that brought down Mr. Summers.
Mr. Summers acknowledged that it
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