Not the easiest time
The continuing conversation about l’affaire Harvard dominates around here. We even discussed it over dinner at the monastery last night.
The president of the university, Larry Summers, has described the last
two months as among some of the hardest of his professional life.
And yesterday was probably one of his hardest days yet….
This coming from a man who dealt with world leaders and helped to manage the world economy.
We academics are not an easy people to work with. ‘Course, from
everything I hear from faculty, neither is the university president.