Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said afterwards that Cox will not be returning to Harvard soon. "It's very, very likely that he's going to want to go somewhere to rest for the rest of the semester," he said...
...commended Cox for his unwillingness to compromise his conscience in the face of "uncertain demands of international security and domestic harmony...
...stressed the morally instructive implications of Cox's actions: "The University must be sensitive to everything that bears upon the moral education of its members. It was a principle worth defending, even by refusing to obey a Presidential order, in order to press its importance vividly on the mind of the nation...
...ironic that in our conversation on the morning before he [Cox] decided to accept his Washington post, one of Archie's chief concerns was whether his decision would set a bad example for his younger colleagues by suggesting that important government service was automatically to be preferred to the professor's chief responsibility as a teacher," Bok recounted...
...said that Cox's action exemplified "the truth embedded in Aristotle's Ethics: if you would understand virtue, observe the conduct of virtuous...