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...president enjoyed a five-day ski trip in Utah, two members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s top governing board—convened in Sarasota, Fla., for a secret rendezvous with the man they hoped would temporarily take the University’s helm: Derek C. Bok. Bok, a former president who led the University from 1971 to 1991, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday that Corporation members Nannerl O. Keohane and James R. Houghton ’58 surprised him with an offer to assume the University?...
...year was 1971. Dean of Harvard Law School Derek C. Bok had just succeeded the embattled Nathan M. Pusey ’28 as president of Harvard University. John Updike ’54 topped the bestseller list, a war dragged on in Vietnam, and conservative President Richard M. Nixon governed from the Oval Office. On July 1, 2006, newly appointed interim President Bok will again take the reins of the University. Although more than 35 years have passed, the current state of affairs seems to be much the same. Another conservative president sits in the White House, another...
...alum who attended Harvard in the 1970s, I must confess to have gotten a chuckle from some of the descriptions of Derek Bok I’ve read over the past week. Ever since it was announced that Bok would return as interim president, he’s been heralded as a beloved and “universally trusted” figure, to cite one Crimson pullquote. Yet what I remember is that, in our day, we undergrads viewed him as a quintessential “suit”—a remote, conflict-averse administrator who many students...
...that he never minded that as long as Harvard seemed exciting. I don’t think it’s any accident, for instance, that when he retired his name was given to a low-key but much-needed program devoted to making Harvard professors better teachers: the Derek Bok Center...
...letter—which was also sent to incoming interim president Derek C. Bok and Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58—also requested a meeting with Summers by March 23, “to confront these issues in respectful cooperation with the administration...