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...snowy night of Dec. 13, a taxi pulled up at Derek Bok's four-bedroom house in Belmont, Mass. Out stepped a well-tailored Boston lawyer wearing crimson socks. He was Francis Burr, Senior Fellow (chairman) of Harvard University's governing corporation. His mission: to offer the dean of Harvard's law school a new job as the university's 25th president. Bok, 40, recalls that he was "astounded...
...later recruited Bok for the Harvard faculty. The two men and their wives met in New York City. Bok's fears that the job would be too wearing were eased by his discovery that the Brewsters "were quite exhilarated by what they do." On Christmas Eve, Burr again rode through a snowstorm, this time to hear Bok accept...
...Unanimous. Last week Burr's corporation asked Harvard's 29 overseers to ratify its choice. They did-but not without hesitating. Several asked a nagging question: Who was Derek...
Particular stress was laid on the budgetary problems that Harvard and American universities in general face. At the morning panel, Francis H. Burr '35, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, said that deficit spending and continued shortage of funds would increasingly threaten the status of private universities in the next 20 years...
...Thursday, January 14, 1971, you printed certain statements by Cambridge Mayor Alfred Vellucei. Francis H. Burr '35 declined to respond. Following you find a verbatim copy of a letter which I sent to Mr. Vellucei giving him my reactions to his statement...