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...can’t quite tell if this book is far too long or far too short. It begins, “on a warm spring day in 1985.” Derek Bok, the former president of Harvard University, proceeds to mention a conversation with Tip O’Neill, then Speaker of the House, on that warm spring day. Bok, upon finishing the story, proceeds to disappear. Having already mentioned in the short preface that he began the book in 1992 as he was retiring from Harvard’s presidency, Bok does not again refer...
Though a prominent lawyer in New York City, Kissel was also an avid scholar of Hindu philosophy. His studies of human morals inspired an interest in ethics, eventually leading to his support for the creation of an ethics program at Harvard. It was former University President Derek C. Bok's idea to fund professors teaching ethics and to encourage instruction among the teaching community that Kissel found his cause...
Current Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine continued Bok's legacy by promoting integration of work and research among the faculty. As a result, 11 new cross-faculty programs were created-including the Center for Ethics and the Professions...
...there is evidence to show that some are unhappy with the current state of oratory on campus. Surveys by the Derek C. Bok Institute taken over the past 12 years indicate that the course alumni wish they had taken most while at Harvard was a course in public speaking...
...curious to see how Summers intends to apply his experience and intellect to the problems that Harvard students face. The University president has the opportunity, unfortunately little exercised during the Rudenstine years, to revamp the College and increase the quality of a Harvard education. Like Eliot, Lowell, Conant and Bok before him, Summers should review the undergraduate curriculum and be unafraid to remove its archaic elements--most notably an outdated Core Program that forces students to take large, watered-down lectures at the expense of departmental classes. We hope Summers will move quickly to address the poor advising system that...