1.   Harvard made its initial pitch to new chief executives, who had to learn how to run a board meeting, said Jay W. Lorsch, senior associate dean.

2.   McNutt, the senior dean, kept telling him that money for college would materialize if he kept his grades up.

3.   No longer are students spoon-fed mountains of information during lengthy lecture courses, said Dr. Daniel R. Alonso, senior associate dean for academic affairs.

4.   Now Przemieniecki is senior dean of the Air Force Institute of Technology and vice president of the Polish Home Army Veterans Association.

5.   Those numbers are expected to increase next year, said senior associate dean Phyllis Gardner, who herself took time out from medicine to work at a start-up.

6.   He is senior dean for clinical teaching and professor of medicine and medical education at Harvard Medical School, Boston.

7.   Sailhac is senior dean of studies at the French Culinary Institute.