Word: overseerers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"The dilemma and the appeal of the man all along," said one overseer, "is that he has the support of everyone from the corporation to the Harvard Crimson, and yet he has not revealed himself even to some of his closest friends." For two hours, the overseers debated whether Bok...
As the questions ended, Robert L. Hoguet '31, an Overseer from New York, rose to make the final nomination, but President Pusey interrupted. "No, I'd like to make this resolution," he said. "I nominate Derek Bok as the 25th President of Harvard University."
"I think everyone was impressed that he came over and offered himself up in the flesh," one Overseer said later. "We asked him many of the questions that Burr said he couldn't answer in the morning, and Bok was candid when he admitted he didn't know about many...
On January 4, Burr took the name of the nominee to the executive committee of the Overseers in New York. But Bok did not actually see the executive committee until last Saturday, when he met them for three hours in Dillon's Manhattan apartment and "acquitted himself damn well," according...
In their November meeting, the Overseers passed a resolution asking the executive committee to meet with the nominee before making its approval. "If they don't, I'm going to scream up and down the place," one Overseer said Tuesday.