Jeremy Knowles is remembered in the Boston Globe (via the Atlanta Constitution, for some reason) and the Telegraph.

Here’s Neil Rudenstine in the Globe:

“Deans and leaders like Jeremy come only rarely,” Neil Rudenstine, who became president of Harvard when Dr. Knowles took over as dean, said in a statement. “He had a penetrating mind. He had wit and charm and taste. Above all, he understood the nature of a university and what it meant to search for knowledge or discover even a single truth. The standard could never be too high.“

And the Telegraph:

As a young man he had played the piano and was a great dancer (his father claimed to have been taught by Fred Astaire); he retained a love, and thorough knowledge, of classical music, especially JS Bach (his eldest son was named Sebastian).

His children were trained to bring him a glass of gin and tonic when he arrived home at the end of each day, when he would chat with them about any topic until dinner time.