I'm still catching up after vacation on all the Harvard news, but I did want to post this short Bloomberg profile of Drew Faust.

``Harvard needs to be far more one university than it ever has before,'' Faust said. Science ``is an area in which structures need to catch up with realities of knowledge and how knowledge is unfolding.''

I know that President-elect Faust wants to be cautious, and understandably so, in her public rhetoric. She did learn something from her predecessor. And yet, she is getting so good at saying nothing that she runs the risk of adopting boilerplate as her native tongue. If Larry Summers defined one rhetorical extreme, Drew Faust seems to be staking out the other.

In the midst of all the catching-up, I didn't have the chance to watch much of Commencement. I know there was a lot of star power there, but it sounds like the new president was still a relatively low-key presence. I would have thought that the university would have taken the occasion to help elevate her profile, but apparently not....