Word: allison
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Such pressures appeared to be a factor last spring when Graham Allison, dean of the School of Government, announced the awarding of five public service medals. One was to Attorney General Edwin Meese. Many Harvard voices protested that the Meese medal was a transparent currying of favor with the Reagan Administration. But the award stood...
...These pressures are a fact of life. They pose a real threat to the central research and teaching tasks," said Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison...
While some "benchmarks" are helpful to guide professors in their outside relationships, attempting to regulate them would be unrealistic, said Allison, who serves as a consultant to the secretary of defense...
...most important thing is a self-consciousness about these pulls and pushes in the society. It's only the standards of people and their colleagues that can ultimately be binding," Allison said...
Although most of those interviewed shared Allison's views, a few professors questioned whether the Kennedy School of Government, one of Bok's highest priorities, fit into the paramaters of independent academia set up by Bok in his speech...