<p>Yale has always seemed to define itself relative to Harvard, while Harvard is more inner-directed.</p>
<p>At President Lawrence H. Summerss installation, Yale President Richard C. Levin confessed that, Harvard is blessed with the broadest and deepest assembly of intellectual talent and academic resources in the world, and it is to Harvard that the whole world looks for leadership. </p>
<p>The Harvard Crimson observed - tongue in cheek - that “at last, Levin joined the long tradition of Yale graduates who spoke the truth in their unguarded momentsor at least forgot that the microphone was turned on.”</p>