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...that of Cornelius Conway Felton, Class of 1827, who, in addition to being deaf as a post, died in office in 1862 after serving just two years. Summers remained in office, a conspicuously lame duck, until June 30 when he was succeeded by one of his predecessors, Derek C. Bok, who had served as president from...
...Nathan M. Pusey ’28, although the last graduate of Harvard College to hold the presidency, was an outsider, and when his name was announced at his 25th reunion in 1953, the general reaction was “Pusey? Who’s he?” Bok was an insider, having been before his election in 1971 the very successful dean of the Law School. Rudenstine and Summers were both outsiders, although each had Harvard doctorates and had at some point taught in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The odds would suggest that...
...science, which has traditionally been governed by insular and competing departments.The decision to create HUSEC is in line with recommendations made by the University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE), which released its final report in December. While the committee expected a favorable reception from President Derek C. Bok and the deans, the considerable financial support for the early stages of the initiative came as a pleasant surprise, according to Lyman Professor of Biology Andrew A. Biewener, who is the chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of UPCSE.The Harvard Corporation?...
With three fresh courses on the course menu for this spring mandating a community service component, students are increasingly seeing syllabi in which homework entails more than required reading. In a new collaboration, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Harvard Public Service Network held an information session yesterday to introduce students to 10 “activity-based learning” classes, three of which haven’t been offered before. Each of the courses includes community service to prompt students to draw from a volunteer experience...
Accuse Harvard of racism, and you fall in a long and undistinguished lineage. When Derek Bok rejected quotas for faculty appointments in the ’80s, preferring to seek out qualified women and minority candidates instead, he was accused by critics of “racism disguised as meritocracy.” Protesters during the student takeover of University Hall in 1968 used to gesture at the portico of Widener, screaming, “Don’t those Georgian columns look like the plantation?” The columns, built in 1915, are more neo-classical revival...