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...alum who attended Harvard in the 1970s, I must confess to have gotten a chuckle from some of the descriptions of Derek Bok I’ve read over the past week. Ever since it was announced that Bok would return as interim president, he’s been heralded as a beloved and “universally trusted” figure, to cite one Crimson pullquote. Yet what I remember is that, in our day, we undergrads viewed him as a quintessential “suit”—a remote, conflict-averse administrator who many students...
...wouldn’t be the first Harvard alum to return home after serving as president of another institution. Nathaniel M. Pusey ’28 headed Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis., before becoming Harvard’s 24th president. And Thomas Hill, Class of 1843, was chief of Antioch College in Ohio before he was Harvard’s 20th leader...
...Black History Month, created 80 years ago by a Harvard alum, comes under fire from some corners of the African-American community, scholars at the University have come to the defense of the annual February feature. Carter G. Woodson earned a Ph.D in history from Harvard in 1912—becoming the second black to receive a doctorate from the University. Fourteen years later, he founded Negro History Week, selecting a seven-day span in February that included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson?...
...course, those continued complaints will gloss over NFL rookie (and Harvard alum) Ryan Fitzpatrick, as well as perennial Pro-Bowl center Matt Birk, who graduated in 1998 and a staple on the Vikings’ offensive line the past few seasons...
...fact that Isaiah Kacyvenski, another alum, was introduced as a captain of the Seahawks team that just fell in the Super Bowl will also be discounted...