She's an Arts & Sciences type (history) and will fit right into the mold. It was the A & S faculty that forced Summers out. Summers fit like a fist in the eye. ("Faust" is German for fist but this lady will do nothing to disturb the smothering Harvard status quo.)
By now this is not an original thought, but the irony must be too much for outgoing president Summers. He opens his mouth, there was the devil to pay, and now Faust is in.
Could we get a lawyer named Daniel Webster to be university counsel?