Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until he became Chancellor of the Berkeley campus in 1952, Kerr was one of the most active and most successful labor arbitrators on the West Coast. He still enjoys what he calls "keeping the peace...
...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...
...president of a multiversity "wins few clear-cut victories; he must aim more at avoiding the worst than seizing the best," Kerr said. "The ultimate test is whether the mediation permits progress to be made fast enough and in the right directions; the needed innovations take precedence over the conservation of the institution...
...conclusion Kerr said. 'The president of the multiversity must be content to hold its constituent elements loosely together and to move the whole enterprise another foot ahead in what often seems an unequal race with history...