Word: derek
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According to press reports, Derek Bok, during his address to the final convocation of Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, warned Harvard against pressures from those "outside" the academy. Both the New York Times and the Boston Globe interpreted this remark as referring to the group of anti-apartheid protesters who blocked the entrance to Memorial Hall on the evening of September 4 and forced the cancellation of a black tie dinner for 300 and more of Harvard's wealthiest contributors. As one of those who locked arms in the doorways that evening, I should like to call attention...
...second night of the celebration, about 65 students, alumni and staff blockaded the two Kirkland Street entrances to Memorial Hall. In this 19th century memorial to Harvard students who died fighting for the Union in the Civil War, President Derek C. Bok was planning to hold an anniversary dinner for some of Harvard's most powerful and wealthy graduates. Reporters had been forewarned by the protesters. The plan was that the media would record the arrests of the protesters--arrests that the University would have had to order if it hoped to get its dinner guests into Memorial Hall...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences appointed an executive committee--which included Littauer Professor of Public Administration Richard E. Neudstadt; President Derek C. Bok, then dean of the Law School; and Lamont University Professor John T. Dunlop, Nixon's labor secretary--to develop an independent, degree-granting program in public policy...
While the address of Charles, Prince of Wales, was surprisingly engaging and Secretary of State George P. Shultz made an effort to justify the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration, only a speech by President Derek C. Bok on the role of the university in society offered any introspection. Even Bok's address was confined to generalities and did not address Harvard specifically. That address, for all its limitations, stood in stark contrast to the banality of the rest of the celebration...