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...major reason behind that image is the nature of the environment in which Bok has worked. The central challenge of Bok's presidency--and that facing higher education in the '70s--has been what senior fellow Francis H. Burr '35 once labelled "creative entrenchment." In an era when funds for private universities have slowly constricted, Bok has spent an inordinate amount of time during the last eight years effecting changes aimed at making the University run more efficiently. The most visible have been administrative, and as a result, Bok has garnered the image of an administrator...
...November, the Corporation had whittled down its list of "possibles" to 69. Included were a number of politicians, as well as several scientists and academics. Two weeks later, the Corporation had trimmed its list to 23. Finally, on the night of December 13, 1970, senior fellow Francis "Hooks" Burr '35 hailed a cab and headed off to Belmont to call on Derek Bok. Ten days later, Bok responded to the Corporation and--save the formalities of January--Harvard had itself a new president...
Historical thrillers are the meatiest of all mysteries. They are connected to reality like funny bone to shoulder bone, insidiously subverting the official versions of history. Gore Vidal's Burr, for instance, and-more inventively-Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution plausibly :combine wit, suspense, speculation and scholarship. Novels like these not only induce insomnia but are also hallucinogenic, tingeing with fantasy the reader's remembrance of known fact...
...friends no longer with us--Burr Hall...
Alan Heimert. Master of Eliot House, said yesterday he did not know of Hill's transfer. Laura Gordon Fisher, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Eliot House, refused to comment on the proposed change