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French maid? Too sexy. Captain Ahab? Too pretentious. These costumes strike just the right blend of clever and conversation-stopping. 1) Harvard football player dressed as convict 2) Lawrence Summers dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein (woman in science) 3) Kaavya Viswanathan dressed as Megan McCafferty 4) Derek Bok dressed as a zombie 5) HRC President dressed in a Village People outfit
...dream last night. It was about Derek C. Bok. And then we cleaned up the sheets and went back to sleep. Later, we had another dream, a dream that one day our sons, admitted to Harvard as legacies, will be judged by the content of their character and not the presence of their penises (or by the fact that their fathers were the two greatest inventors of the 21st century). Yet we awoke to a dystopia, in which every aspect of campus social life is determined by gender...
...think you will agree that it is more difficult than is commonly acknowledged to fix a precise date for the founding of Harvard,” Interim University President Derek C. Bok wrote in an e-mail...
...that case, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan asked two former Law School deans—Derek C. Bok, who had not yet returned to the Harvard presidency, and Robert C. Clark—to launch an investigation into the matter...
...February 1978, one of the worst Nor’easters on record struck New England, paralyzing all of Boston under several feet of snow and shutting down Harvard. Then-president Derek C. Bok was asked why he didn’t close the University as soon as the storm hit. According to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Bok replied, “I tried to, but I didn’t know...