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Derek C. Bok wrote three Belmont City officials last month to deny having criticized the town's present school system at the press conference which followed his official appointment as Harvard's next President...
...Boston Globe of January 15 quoted Bok as saying at that conference that "Belmont schools are not as well-financed as they could be, and the Belmont school system is not as good as the town should have...
...explained in letters which he wrote the same day to Belmont's school superintendent, school committee chairman, and selectman that he had been referring to the condition of the school system in 1964-when he decided to send his oldest child Hilany to the private Belmont Day School-rather than today...
...snowy night of Dec. 13, a taxi pulled up at Derek Bok's four-bedroom house in Belmont, Mass. Out stepped a well-tailored Boston lawyer wearing crimson socks. He was Francis Burr, Senior Fellow (chairman) of Harvard University's governing corporation. His mission: to offer the dean of Harvard's law school a new job as the university's 25th president. Bok, 40, recalls that he was "astounded...
...human sensitivity. I saw him handle many hostile encounters (often single-handedly. when others were frightened) with a skill that I can still only admire from a distance It was in no small way due to his efforts that many forces favorable to black neighbors made themselves felt in Belmont...