Open this photo in gallery: Harvard University president Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday, Jan. 2, amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.Steven Senne/The Associated Press Claudine Gay seemed destined to make history when she was officially inaugurated as Harvard University’s first Black president on a rainy Friday in September. Her appointment had been seen as a turning point for the august 387-year-old Boston-area institution that, only a year earlier, had finally acknowledged its own deep...