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...Past recipients of the Radcliffe Medal include singer Lena Horne, Harvard President Emeritus Derek C. Bok, American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole, Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Harvard Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin, and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno...
...Previous inaugurations have varied in size and tone. For University President Derek C. Bok, who preceded Rudenstine, the inauguration was a modest affair...
...outset of his term as Harvard’s president, Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was charged with bringing the University together after the turmoil of World War II. His successor, Derek C. Bok, had to restore continuity and rebuild infrastructure after the turmoil of the 1960s...
James B. Conant ’14, the 23rd President of Harvard, was both a leader in national education reform and an international figure, serving as the High Commissioner to Germany under U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, during the final year of his Harvard tenure. Bok was also a prominent national figure, frequently writing op-ed pieces in national newspapers and testifying before Congress...
...grand plans attracted them all—but no matter his brilliant ideas and wonderful personality, he had two fatal flaws in their mind. At 54, Bollinger was just too old. The committee wanted someone who could hold the job for 15 or 20 years, like the great presidents Bok and Eliot. After all, only 26 people had served as president in Harvard’s 365 years. Secondly, Bollinger had no Harvard degree—and thus would be the first president since the 1600s to not be an alum of the University...