As many of the current inhabitants of University Hall prepare themselves for a new arrangement, Lewis says he plans to cut back on his committee memberships and continue to teach Computer Science 121: “Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation.”

“It’ll be a little strange, because my teaching load will be the same, except without all the dean of Harvard College stuff,” he says.

He says he is considering writing a “memoir-like” book on education and intends to develop a general education course on information and its impact on science and society.

And while Lewis said in March that he did not plan to go on leave, he does plan to take next spring and the following fall off.

“There’s something profoundly genuine, real, authentic and continuous about Harry’s deanship,” Gomes said. “There is life after the bloody deanship of Harvard College.”

Gomes was talking about Lewis’ life after the Harvard administration, but all will be watching next year how life will continue in “Europe” without its “Charlemagne.”

Lewis, after packing up his Montana rocks and taking the buffalo skull off his wall, will be gone from his University Hall office for good.

—Staff writer Alexander J. Blenkinsopp can be reached at blenkins@fas.harvard.edu.