“A number of Faculty members have given me advice in this area, and...there is a lengthy literature of alternative plans for the organization of these offices,” he wrote in an e-mail.
These plans were discussed under the tenure of Kirby’s predecessor, Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeremy R. Knowles and were sketched out by none other than Lewis himself.
Though Knowles ultimately favored maintaining the separation, he said yesterday that “the integration of the curricular and non-curricular aspects of undergraduate education is a persuasive option.”
—Staff writer Elisabeth S. Theodore can be reached at theodore@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Jessica E. Vascellaro can be reached at vascell@fas.harvard.edu.
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