The Yale Daily News offers its take on goings-on at Harvard here.

(Think folks in New Haven are enjoying this much?)

The most interesting part is this contribution from Yale history professor John Morton Blum, a former member of the Harvard Corporation, who spoke about the impossibility of knowing where the Harvard Corporation truly stands.

<<"We don't know what the feeling in the corporation is," Blum said. "I don't know whether Mr. Houghton is speaking for himself or for a majority of the corporation or for the whole corporation." Even if the corporation fully supports Summers now, its support may be tentative, Blum said. But chances are slim that the corporation would fire Summers outright, due to a “tradition of civility” that exists among institutions of higher learning, Blum said. “What they would do would be to go to the president and say, ‘We no longer support you, you’ve got to resign,'” he said, noting that former Harvard President Nathan Pusey, unpopular among students and faculty alike for his handling of a riot during the 1960s, was ousted in this way.>>

Blum indirectly touches upon a crucial point: that “tradition of civility” in institutions of higher learning. That’s exactly what the faculty is saying has been lost under Larry Summers. Ironic that the very tradition he has scorned may keep him from getting fired.