Harvard Rules (56 page)

In the book, Rosovsky explains:
Henry Rosovsky,
The University: An Owner's Manual
(New York: Norton, 1990.) I draw on various sections of Rosovsky's book, but particularly useful is Chapter 10, “Tenure: The Meaning of Tenure.”

There is no middle ground:
Smith,
The Harvard Century,
79.

Brilliant and creative people:
Derek Bok, “Reflections on Academic Freedom: An Open Letter to the Harvard Community,” Supplement to the
Harvard University Gazette,
April 11, 1980, 2.

Universities—as distinct from the scholars:
“A Wunderkind Goes Home,”
Newsweek,
March 26, 2001, 94.

A single compelling idea:
Sam Tanenhaus, “The Ivy League's Angry Star,”
Vanity Fair,
June 2002, 220.

One needs an enemy:
John Kenneth Galbraith,
Name-Dropping: From F.D.R. On
(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), 18.

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I would travel all over the world:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at the President's Associates Dinner,” November 16, 2001. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2001/presidentassoc.html.

What will shape this world:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks to the Harvard College Fund Assembly,” October 25, 2003. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2003/college_fund.html.

The world is really shaped:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Some Thoughts on Undergraduate Education,” Commencement Address, June 5, 2003.

Nothing that would give greater support: Harvard Crimson,
March 10, 2003.

Harvard exists for only one reason:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at Tobin School,” January 9, 2002. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2002/afterschool.html.

A “passion for Athenian law”:
“John Harvard's Journal,”
Harvard Magazine,
January–February 2002, 65.

We couldn't be choosy:
Smith,
The Harvard Century,
205.

Harvard's loss is Wisconsin's gain:
Kai Bird,
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 119.

Serene and quiet courage:
Smith,
The Harvard Century,
208.

Undergraduates who get excited:
Ibid., 210.

I was tougher then:
Ibid., 244.

The most important problems in the world:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at Harvard School of Public Health,” October 26, 2001. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2001/sph.html.

An “American decade”:
Interview with Lawrence Summers, “Commanding Heights,” the Public Broadcasting Service, April 24, 2001.

If you read Gandhi:
From Brian Palmer's class, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” on March 17, 2004.

When they think of police:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at Public Service Awards Dinner,” October 26, 2001. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2001/ksg.html.

Their work is America's work:
The video can be seen at http://www.goarmy.com/flindex.jsp.

Sex between the Bushes: Washington Post,
July 1, 2001.

They literally look terrible:
Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, “Image Is in the Eye,”
The Harvard Crimson,
May 17, 2002.

Above average in fatness: “Larry Summers Is Fat,”
The Demon,
March 2003, 2.

The most arcane subjects:
J. Madeleine Nash, “The Geek Syndrome?”
Time,
May 6, 2002, 50.

The person with AS:
Barbara L. Kirby, “What Is Asperger Syndrome?” from O.A.S.I.S., Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support, at http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html.

Being a good baseball scout:
Summers made the remark at a forum sponsored by the School of Education on April 23, 2004.

As a Muslim:
Zayed Yasin, “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad,” reprinted in
Harvard Magazine,
July–August 2002, 65.

Jayed…Zayed: Today,
NBC News Transcripts, June 5, 2002.

We venerate at this university:
Lawrence H. Summers, “ROTC Commissioning Ceremony,” June 5, 2002. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2002/rotc.html.

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History teaches us that:
From “Harvard President Lawrence Summers Speaks at Health Care: East and West,” from
HMI World—A
Bimonthly Newsletter Published by Harvard Medical International,
June 27,2001. Found at http://www.hms.harvard.edu/hmi/wnew/summers_ transcript.html.

His idea of study abroad:
Kirby made the remark at a lunch for Harvard alumni in London, England, on November 15, 2003, but often delivered variations of it when meeting with alumni.

The
Crimson
staff hope: Harvard Crimson,
November 18, 2002.

I've been thinking about retirement:
Ibid., September 9, 2002.

He just wanted to stand up:
Ibid.

Rick has served Harvard: Harvard University Gazette,
August 22, 2002.

The petition called for divestment:
The full petition can be found at http://harvardmitdivest.org/petition.html.

A counter-petition:
The petition was online at harvardmitjustice.org, but is no longer available online.

One of those tormented Jewish girls:
Andrea Shen, “Elisa New Weaves Literary Strands into One Web,”
Harvard University Gazette,
September 23, 1999.

An unlimited number of Jews:
Morton Keller and Phyllis Keller,
Making Harvard Modern,
49.

Snowballing New York contingent:
Ibid., 51.

I speak with you today:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Address at Morning Prayers,” September 17, 2002. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2002/morningprayers.html.

Respect and admire moral clarity:
Lawrence Summers, “ROTC Commissioning Ceremony,” June 5, 2002. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2002/rotc.html.

To single out the Jewish state of Israel:
Alan M. Dershowitz, “A Challenge to House Master Hanson,”
Harvard Crimson,
September 23, 2002.190
With an empty chair:
Ibid.

Criticizing the actions and laws:
Rita Hamad, Shadi Hamid, and Yousef Munnayer, “Free Speech or Intimidation,”
Harvard Crimson,
November 4, 2002.

Unpopular opinions have become:
“Morning Edition,” National Public Radio, October 22, 2002.

Killed in Crossfire: Tom Paulin, “Killed in Crossfire,”
The Observer,
February 18, 2001.

I think they are Nazis: Al-Ahram,
April 4–10, 2002.

My views have been distorted: Daily Mail,
April 19, 2002.

Lousy but famous poet:
Martin Peretz, “The Poet and the Murderer,”
The New Republic,
April 29, 2002, 38.

That sounds pretty bad:
Jeffrey Toobin, “Speechless,”
The New Yorker,
January 27, 2003, 32. I am indebted to Toobin's thorough and excellent article, upon which I drew to describe the controversy surrounding Tom Paulin's invitation to speak at Harvard.

The people who selected him:
Ibid., 32.

You should ask Larry Summers:
Ibid., 33.

The invitation does not represent:
Neil Rudenstine, “Statement about Visit of China President Jiang Zemin,”
Harvard University Gazette,
October 30, 1997.

Widespread consternation that has arisen:
Lawrence Buell's statement was posted on the Harvard Department of English's website, but can no longer be found there.

What is truly dangerous:
Alan M. Dershowitz, Charles Fried, and Laurence H. Tribe, “Withdrawing Paulin's Invitation Unnecessary,”
The Harvard Crimson,
November 15, 2002.

The department in no sense:
From “Harvard English Department's Invitation of Tom Paulin to Give Poetry Reading—Supplementary Information,” November 21, 2002. Found at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~english/events/announcements.html.

Invitations to Harvard departments:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Statement Regarding Invitation to Tom Paulin,” November 20, 2002. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2002/poet.html.

The programme though:
Tom Paulin, “On Being Dealt the Anti-Semitic Card,”
The Guardian,
January 8, 2003.

Our rottweiler Larry:
Monica Collins, “Ask Dog Lady,”
Cambridge Chronicle,
March 1, 2003.

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A 2001
Boston Globe
survey: Boston Globe,
February 4, 2001.

Nearly half of the Harvard College student body felt depressed: The Harvard Crimson,
March 31, 2003.

Harvard's mental health crisis: Harvard Crimson,
January 12, 2004.

You're here by mistake:
William C. Kirby, “Remarks at the Opening Exercises for Freshmen,” September 7, 2003. Found at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/administration/kirby/opening_exercises_2003.html.

In Yale time:
Richard C. Levin,
The Work of the University
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 57.

The greatest danger for a university: Washington Post,
June 24, 2004.

Camp Harvard:
Anthony S. A. Freinberg, “Debunking Camp Harvard,”
The Harvard Crimson,
March 21, 2003.

I did once use the phrase ‘camp counselor':
Ibid.

That has staggering potential:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at Spring Members' Meeting of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center,” April 22, 2004. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2004/wharton.html.

Part of a broader university: Harvard Crimson,
December 3, 2002.

They are gracefully unambiguous:
Jeremy Knowles quoted on “Wild About Harry—Recollections from Colleagues and Friends,” a DVD in honor of Harry Lewis' service as dean of Harvard College.

A review taking place post–Sept. 11: Harvard Crimson,
September 30, 2002.

Lewis' introduction of American values:
Ibid.

Newton and Einstein did their main thinking:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Baccalaureate Address,” June 4, 2002. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2002/baccalaureate.html.

Not to put too much pressure on you:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at Opening Exercises,” September 8, 2002. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2002/welcome.html.

Autumn was the time for executions:
William J. Kirby, “Self-Cultivation, Self-Criticism, and Self-Renewal,” September 27, 2002. Found at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/administration/kirby/speech_092702.html.

Dean Lewis has done a great deal: Harvard Crimson,
March 18, 2003.

Gross was overwhelmed: Harvard Crimson,
June 10, 2004.

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As much of this chapter is about Timothy McCarthy, I should note that I knew McCarthy before commencing the writing of this book. While a graduate student at Harvard from 1989 to 1992, I served as a tutor in the department of history and literature, and in that capacity I taught McCarthy in his junior year tutorial during the 1991–1992 school year. We did not stay in touch over the next eleven years, and it was to my surprise that I discovered, upon beginning this book, that McCarthy had become a scholar and was teaching at Harvard.

Race Is Never Neutral:
Lawrence H. Summers and Laurence H. Tribe, “Race Is Never Neutral,”
New York Times,
March 29, 2003.

I do believe in affirmative action:
Lawrence Summers during a question-and-answer session at the Harvard Club of New York, March 20, 2004.

Smell the roses: New York Times,
May 30, 2004.

This has been a good year:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Some Thoughts on Undergraduate Education,” June 5, 2003. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2003/commencement03.html.

Different people have different views: Harvard Crimson,
May 21, 2003.

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Five reader letters: New York Times,
September 7, 2003.

What good did I do?: Boston Globe,
August 23, 2003.

Anytime Peter Gomes ascends:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Address at Morning Prayers,” September 15, 2003. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2003/prayer.html.

This is your university:
Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at Black Alumni Weekend,” October 4, 2003. Found at http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2003/blackalum.html.