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...President Bok defends the 1978 decision in an open letter. Bok writes that “total divestment would almost certainly cause the University to divert millions of dollars in pursuit of a strategy that is legally questionable, widely disputed on its merits, and very likely to prove ineffective in achieving its objectives...
...Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and its Presidents”. Even this closure occurred only after the Massachusetts governor declared a state of emergency, brought in the national guard, and restricted any unnecessary travel. After the blizzard hit, many people asked then University President Derek C. Bok why he did not immediately shut the University down. According to Gomes, Bok responded, “I tried to, but I didn’t know how.” The storm, which The Crimson reported brought ninety-two miles per hour gusts of wind and dumped over...
...there is a long history.” While past presidents have consulted with professors and Corporation members to varying degrees in the selection process, Rosovsky said, “the deans who head faculties are chosen by the president.”Derek C. Bok, who led the University from 1971 to 1991, consulted informally with professors on dean appointments. And Bok’s successor, Neil L. Rudenstine, “set up committees to seek the wisdom of the faculty,” according to Rosovsky, who also served on the Harvard Corporation from 1985 to 1996.Under...
...vindication came a few weeks later. “We got a handwritten letter from President Bok apologizing on behalf of the University for the travesty that was my graduation...
...stems? A sheep. A pineapple half and chunks of green pepper? A turtle. Those are what you get in Freymann's antic, ingenious sculptures of fruits and vegetables. Some of his creations are scarcely altered. It's amazing how easily a sweet potato morphs into a guinea pig, or bok choy into a fish. Others are more elaborate, as when he shapes bananas into the heads of giraffes, then a zebra and, yes, an airplane. The book has five sections in which Freymann's fancies illustrate shapes, colors, numbers, letters and opposites. His inventiveness never flags, nor will the reader...