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Harvard is 350 years old and is throwing itself a party. And, oh what a party. Derek Bok on Time magazine, John Harvard on his own postage stamp, chrysanthemums are on the steps of Widener, and the special 350th seal is on just about everything else...
Bunting-Smith worked closely with top administrators in the '60s and '70s for the introduction of coeducational housing, according to former Harvard President Derek...
...think it would please Dr. King greatly that we can sit here today as brothers and sisters," said Derek C. Araujo '99, chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Interfaith Forum...
Delighted at first, that is. Caribbean poet Derek Walcott, who won the prize in 1992, recalls a similar burst of joy followed by a prolonged state of siege. "The phone rang endlessly, and a lot of invitations came. It was a really terrible time, not terrible in a bad sense but terrible in how exacting it is. For a while you can't work, because it's so demanding." What Walcott characterizes as the Nobel's less than phenomenal influence on his book sales didn't make up for the chaotic fuss. What did soothe him, however, was the prize...
...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...