Harvard University.Conrad Harper, the only black member of Harvard Harvard, town (1990 pop. 12,329), Worcester co., E central Mass.; inc. 1732. A Shaker house and cemetery, a Native American museum, and a Harvard observatory are there. University's (Mass.) seven-member governing board Noun 1. governing board - a board that manages the affairs of an institution board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members" , resigned over a 3 percent pay raise granted to President Lawrence Summers Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and academic. He is the 1993 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work in macroeconomics, was Secretary of the Treasury for the last year and a half of the Bill Clinton administration, and . The raise, which brings Summers' salary to $580,000, is too much in light of the controversial comments Summers has made about women's achievements in math and science, Harper says. (Earlier this year, Summers' questioned whether "intrinsic intrinsic /in·trin·sic/ (in-trin´sik) situated entirely within or pertaining exclusively to a part. in·trin·sic adj. 1. Of or relating to the essential nature of a thing. 2. aptitude" might account for the low number of women in the engineering and science fields.) Harper also took issue with Summers over reported past disputes with leaders of the university's black studies department ... |
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