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Word: coxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, his strength has been a little too much and his finesse a bit too clever. If there is any one "law and order" candidate for the presidency, Cox is it. As such he is getting a large boost from conservative professors on the Faculty who think of his role last year as primarily a judicial one, and who believe a judicious man is a man in whose hands the university should be placed...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...alumni and some Faculty, Cox's credentials are impeccable. His public notices mark him as a moderate liberal: the man who sorted out the meaning of Columbia and was one of the first to give the official stamp of approval to the theory that college administrators were out of touch...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...STUDENTS, however, Cox was no more than the Administration enforcer, and it is unlikely that as president, he could shake such an image. He has always been aloof and evasive to undergraduates, the only administrator on the campus who could say fewer words per public appearance than Pusey...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...Still, Cox is not to be discounted, because there is a prevailing opinion that Harvard needs such a man: A distinguished older president who through sheer prestige and demeanor might hold the university together for five or six more years while it straightens itself...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

Like Brewster and Gardner, however, it is doubtful that Cox would take the post even if it were offered to him. There have been persistent rumors that he turned down a top administrative post at Harvard last Spring, opting for the trouble-shooter spot. In that position, he has quite likely...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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