Word: derek
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SECRETARY OF EDUCATION William J. Bennett was correct last week when he accused Harvard of failing to meet its educational obligations to its students, even though his argument failed, as President Derek C. Bok claimed, to meet "high intellectual standards." It is unfortunate that Bennett's sloppy, unacademic approach and his arrogant manner obscured what could have been a convincing presentation...
Bernstein stopped donating money to a scholarship fund for he created in 1961 three years ago because President Derek C. Bok wrote an introduction to a book entitled "Living with Nuclear Weapons." Bernstein said he strongly disagreed with the policy set forth in the book and thought Bok's introduction gave undeserved credibility to the work...
Then, as in the Red Sox locker room last night, the champagne flowed freely. Harvard scientists, including five Nobel laureates on hand for the occassion, sucked bubbly and toasted Harvard's most recent superstar. President Derek C. Bok supplemented the alcohol on hand by sending over a vintage bottle of Laurent-Perrier. Attached was a note from Bok that read, in part, "good guys don't always finish last...
...same type of twisted logic applies to the recent imbroglio between President Derek C. Bok and Secretary of Education William J. Bennett. Bok invited the guy to a birthday bash, and Bennett ended up swigging some tea and spouting drivel all over his hosts. Bok was left holding the quarter...
Harvard President Derek C. Bok responded to Bennett's absurd accusations with some polemical remarks of his own. On the level of soapbox debate, Bok floored the Secretary with an even more formidable display of histrionics. While it is heartening that the President of Harvard can defend himself and his institution from peevish and petty assaults with great skill, Bok failed deal with the important issues that Bennett did raise despite himself. On these more substantive issues--teaching, advising and, to a lesser extent, the Core Curriculum--Bok issued the sort of conditioned, knee-jerk defense of Harvard that Bennett...