Open this photo in gallery: Harvard University President Claudine Gay watches a video being played during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 5.KEN CEDENO/Reuters The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay Tuesday was an earthquake that is sending aftershocks throughout universities not only in the United States but around the globe. That is because – in perhaps the only plausible comparison of the Cambridge, Mass., institution with the fleshpots, casinos and, tellingly, divorce venues of Las Vegas – what happens at Harvard never stays at Harvard. Founded a century before George Washington was born, Harvard has...