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...trained experts offering advice on the problems of the day; academics have a valuable perspective to offer even if they have to fly to Washington once a week to offer it. The question remains, though, where should Harvard's primary loyalties lie? Bok the corporate lawyer, with a keen eye for efficient, cost-effective management techniques, symbolizes the technocratic turn Harvard has taken under his guidance. The future looks no more hopeful. The tight academic job market drives scholars out of liberal arts careers. Some of Harvard's greatest humanists--scholar/teachers like Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate deal for undergraduate...
...British forces, none too keen on marching by and leaving an unprotected flank that trigger-happy colonials might pepper, marched on to the Common. Their commander ordered the farmers to lay down their weapons and disperse--and, since the alternative was to be shot, most of the Minutemen began to do just that. But as they walked slowly off the Common, someone fired a single shot. Whatever its source, it incited the British-- disobeying orders not to fire, the regulars leveled one volley and then charged across the green, shooting and bayoneting the colonials...
Although Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, praises Bok's initiative, he says that the president is perhaps too "keen" on preventing the University from being buffeted by the outside world. "We are in the world. Period. It's not an ivy tower," Hoffman says. "While we should not let ourselves be part of political games, we might as well face the facts...
...staff has used outside grants instead of money from the Faculty budget, to fund its programs, which include a computer system for identifying people interested in the committee's services, as well as sponsoring seminars and lectures, Cheryl H. Keen, one of the two doctoral candidates who are coordinators of the committee, said yesterday...
...home with Picasso as he was with Pisanello. Thanks to his eye and keen judgement, Harvard's art collections are rich in works by leading 20th century masters," Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts and director of the Fogg Museum, said Monday...