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...five-day ski trip in Utah, two members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s top governing board—convened in Sarasota, Fla., for a secret rendezvous with the man they hoped would temporarily take the University’s helm: Derek C. Bok. Bok, a former president who led the University from 1971 to 1991, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday that Corporation members Nannerl O. Keohane and James R. Houghton ’58 surprised him with an offer to assume the University’s top post...
...year was 1971. Dean of Harvard Law School Derek C. Bok had just succeeded the embattled Nathan M. Pusey ’28 as president of Harvard University. John Updike ’54 topped the bestseller list, a war dragged on in Vietnam, and conservative President Richard M. Nixon governed from the Oval Office. On July 1, 2006, newly appointed interim President Bok will again take the reins of the University. Although more than 35 years have passed, the current state of affairs seems to be much the same. Another conservative president sits in the White House, another...
...universal truth about the community remains unaffected: that the University’s foremost priority must remain the improvement of the undergraduate experience. University President Lawrence H. Summers’ departure will bring many changes, but the place of undergraduates in the University will be unaltered. As Derek C. Bok resumes his role in Mass. Hall, this undergraduate-prioritizing leader (who championed the cause of undergraduate pedagogy in the 1970s and 1980s) will replace another (who called Harvard College “the very heart of the university” in his 2001 inaugural address).And if undergraduate issues...
...letter—which was also sent to incoming interim president Derek C. Bok and Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58—also requested a meeting with Summers by March 23, “to confront these issues in respectful cooperation with the administration...
Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment last night on when Bok and the Overseers were informed of Summers’ resignation...