In his installation address, President Lawrence S. Bacow said, “[W]e must strive to model the behavior we would hope to see elsewhere.” His context then was sustaining free speech on campus in the search for truth. When he invokes the phrase now, it seems broadly applicable to the ways Harvard must conduct itself, if it truly aspires to be a leading institution of higher education, at a moment when many institutions seem to be stumbling. During the past 15 months, the University’s helmspeople have been focused on operating during a lethal pandemic. But Harvard has simultaneously undertaken many internal inquiries into its deep past and present practices: to understand itself better, and to “model the behavior” the community hopes to see take root across the wider, riven society. Totting them up may be instructive.