Word: derek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...respected history professor named Alan Brinkley was denied tenure. Professor Brinkley had a distinguished scholarly record, appeared to be generally well-liked by his colleagues and was adored by his students. Many of these students were understandably upset; letters were written to the Crimson and to then-University president Derek C. Bok, and I'm sure at least a petition or two was circulated. In the end, another university snatched up Alan Brinkley (Columbia or Princeton, I think), and a semester or two later, no doubt, another aspiring young star arrived at the History department...
Payanzo studies during the middle of the night--typically from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.--while Dylan sleeps. But Payanzo, an anthropology concentrator, is also taking more difficult classes this semester and works five to six hours a week at the Derek Bok Learning Center for Teaching and Learning. No longer a complacent newborn, Dylan will no longer listen patiently as Payanzo reads her French homework to him. Instead, he tears out the pages from her African history textbook...
...theater spiced up what was an otherwise fairly homogeneous performance. Kitschy pop culture icons like Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne kept the audience connected to the plot, and the voices of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III as the Mayor of Illyria and Professor of English Derek Pearsall as Shakespeare rang with pleasant familiarity amidst the musical's otherwise bizarre cultural collage...
Internationalization has been a Harvard buzzword for at least a decade. Though University officials haven't revealed an over-arching vision for these affairs, Derek C. Bok, Harvard president from 1971 to 1991, described his international outlook for Harvard in his 1987 Commencement address...
...former animated film professor, Derek Lamb, played a hand in bringing her back to the world of animation by suggesting that she return to Harvard to finish her first animated film that she had begun in his class...