Word: bok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bok spoke about the "crisis of the professions" to an audience of seniors in caps and gowns...
Specialization of professional fields has led to a "separation of professionals from the human beings they serve," Bok said...
Presidents Bok and Horner bade farewell to about 400 members of the Class of '79 at the annual Baccalaureate service in Memorial Church...
...Faculty have become possibly the strongest force outside the Harvard Corporation attempting to influence Harvard's investment policy. In its two open discussions and in an open letter calling on Harvard to promote corporate withdrawal from South Africa, the Faculty became a definite participant in what President Bok terms the ongoing debate on South Africa. Instead of continuing passively to observe the wrangling of the Corporation and anti-apartheid groups, a significant number of the Faculty joined the debate over the University's responsibility as a shareholder to non-whites in South Africa, voiced its dissatisfaction with current University policy...
PRESIDENT Bok, however, remains skeptical of assertions that corporate withdrawal will benefit non-whites in South Africa. But in doing so he overlooks, as the anti-apartheid groups claim, nearly every major black leader in South Africa. And he seems oblivious to the contentions of Rev. Desmond Tutu, a black South African leader who will receive an honorary degree at Commencement, that foreign investment in South Africa maintains apartheid...