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...presidential search that had been unprecedented in the history of any American college and certainly will never again be repeated at Harvard. The time involved was enormous, upwards of 30 to 40 hours a week for Francis H. Burr, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation charged with finding President Pusey's successor. The total cost, including mailing for 203,000 letters soliciting suggestions and air travel for five fellows as they crossed the country meeting some 100 to 200 university administrators, ran over...
Everyone looked to the Corporation for The Answer to whatever grievance or key problem they saw, and as Francis Burr commented after the choice had been made. "We really had two problems. First to get the best man possible for the job, and second to make people believe that they were actually involved in the process. I think we succeeded on the first and hopefully on the second...
...month of December with a list of 23 finalists for the job, but even as that list was creeping into national print after the CRIMSON broke it, three of the five Corporation members had already decided on Bok and the other two were just days away from coming around. Burr said later that, by that time, there was nothing new to be said on the subject, and most of his colleagues agreed. The only question by mid-December was timing, and peripherally, how the hell to keep the newspapers from blowing the story before the formalities were concluded...
...full backing of the Governing Boards, and three members of the Corporation-Francis H. Burr '35, the man who headed the search for Pusey's successor, Hugh Calkins '45, and John M. Blum '43-are close friends of his. At this point, the Corporation and Overseers are beaming with pride over their new President; only time will tell how they react to his administrative inclinations...
When Francis Burr came to his house on December 13 and offered him the job, Bok asked for ten days to think it over. Later he reflected, "Being asked to do something for an institution like Harvard exercises a very potent appeal that is hard to gauge until...