The Power of Professors

Lawrence Summers never won over Harvard's faculty. That cost him his job.

Academe reverberated last 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 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 professors' vociferous complaints that brought

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