Word: bloomings
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...praise the staff gives Bok also misses the mark. To see evidence of the "good liberal" in Bok in his defense of Harvard against Allan D. Bloom and against federal budget cuts is to misread the President's motives. He obviously has a vested interest in maintaining federal subsidies for higher education and in retaining the prestige of his university. Such defense means nothing more than that Bok is a shrewd politician...
...issues facing American higher education. Always the "good liberal" we had hoped he would be, Bok frequently journeyed to Washington to fight federal cutbacks in financial aid. He proved a worthy foe to the likes of former Education Secretary William J. Bennett and University of Chicago Professor Allan D. Bloom, defending America's colleges and universities from their conservative attacks. His annual reports on the state of Harvard often proved to be valuable tools for other educators around the country...
This year, Bok again took up the cause ofhigher education, using his annual report todefend America's colleges and universities againstwhat he said was unprecedented attacks from thelikes of Bloom and Bennett...
...admonitions of William Bennett and Allan Bloom came to light the day I received my letter of rejection from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). As a teaching assistant and aspiring applicant to the doctoral program in Government, I became rudely awakened to one of the most serious deficiencies in undergraduate education at Harvard...
...University of Chicago Professor Allan D. Bloom...