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Clark Kerr, President of the University of California and this year's Godkin lecturer, last came to Harvard in 1958, when he was awarded an honorary degree at Commencement. Kerr remembers the experience with considerable amusement: "I nearly fell flat on my face in front of the audience. I was on crutches, and I momentarily stumbled on the wooden platform." The crutches were to protect a broken ankle, Kerr recalls, an injury he had received the previous Sunday while playing a vigorous game of soccer with his two sons...
...role of family man was, in fact, one of the "many faces" of the ideal university president whom Kerr described in his first Godkin lecture Tuesday night. Kerr's "multi-versed" president was also an administrator, educator, mediator, speaker, and public clown. It is not surprising that the mask Kerr most enjoys donning is that of mediation...
Kennan is a former Godkin lecturer. He last appeared at Harvard in April, 1960, to lecture on the Soviet Union under Stalin...
Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York gave last year's Godkin lectures on "The Future of Federalism...
...historical strands and encompassing many communities with distinctly different purposes, the American "multiversity" has "no peers in all history among institutions of higher learning in serving so many of the segments of an advancing civilization," Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, declared last night in his first Godkin lecture...