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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very proud of our hockey team. I'll probably send Mr. [Bill] Cleary a note saying that I hope he does better in the second half of the season [15-0] for a Harvard team. Whenever we're ranked first in the nation, I began to worry."--Harvard President Derek Bok on his reaction to the Harvard hockey team's number-one ranking in the national polls...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Final Thoughts and Quotes | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...Derek Bok's fault. Wasn't it Michael Dukakis who said about the Reagan administration's drug policy, "A fish rots from the head down"? Well, if this college is tense, then it must all start in Massachusetts Hall...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Placing the Blame for Tension | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

When was the last time Derek Bok got up in a local Cambridge restaurant and yelled to cheering college students. "Yale Sucks!"? For that matter, when did he ever go to a local restaurant? (When, outside of hockey games, do Harvard students cheer...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Placing the Blame for Tension | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...much as some of us would like it to be so, its not all Derek Bok's fault. Some of the blame must lie with the admissions committee, which admitted a group of students commonly known as "grinds...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Placing the Blame for Tension | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

When junior members of the English Department met with President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence earlier this month to complain about two recent tenure denials, they charged that Harvard places a disproportionate share of administrative work on its junior faculty...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Should Service Be Considered in Tenure? | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

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