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...Harvard's other national and international fund-raising, since he took office in the spring of 1972. He says it is his job to "know where the other hand is going," to insure that nobody gets asked for money too frequently, whether it is Toyota or an American alumnus...
...personal terms with Mr. Bok's three presidential predecessors, and--though I have had less occasion to see him--I have found him the most responsive and open of the four. I do not understand why an employee of his office much less one who is neither an alumnus nor a number of the faculty, should suggest--and thereby help to create--a kind of rift which seems far from evident to many of us who stand closer to the academic scene. If I presumed to offer any advice, it would simply be that Mr. Bok pay no attention...
...most forceful statements in opposition came years ago from an illustrious Union alumnus, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis. "God has reserved to himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it," Bonhoeffer wrote. "Even if [a person's] earthly life has become a torment for him, he must commit it intact to God's hand, from which it came...
...alumnus who has heard Karl Strauch, professor of Physics and committee chairman, give his standard "the-time-has-come-for-gradual-change" spiel; any faculty member or administrator with an ear to the ground; or any student who reads. The Crimson was prepared long ago for the committee recommendations...
That fact, those who are supposed to know say, is the advantage of the University's student-faculty-alumnus-administrator committee style of evaluating its practices: everyone has time to anticipate and get used to the future before it arrives...