Word: derek
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...alumni sons—many from private schools and from the East. Many of them were, of course, very fine—but quite a number were not, and there was a bit too much homogeneity. In this respect, there has been a revolution, instigated especially by Presidents Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine, and carried out by all those in charge of admissions. The triumph of diversity, lamented by some conservatives who mistook it for a degradation of standards, is actually the best thing that could have happened—a grand experiment not only in cross-fertilization...
...Derek C. Bok, Harvard’s 25th president, when he completed an encore year as interim president following the Summers debacle...
...Derek Flanzraich ’10 is a government concentrator in Currier House...
...incident came to light when a sophomore student reported that visiting professor Derek Walcott, who later won a Nobel Prize, repeatedly propositioned her the previous spring. The student, who remained anonymous the entire time, sought a regrade for the C she received in Walcott’s poetry class...
...Harvard decided to go ahead with the speech, and so, on Commencement day, while Mexican writer and ambassador Carlos Fuentes was the one to speak in person at the ceremonies, he shared an honorary podium with Walesa, as then-University President Derek C. Bok read excerpts of a text sent by the Polish revolutionary...