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...appointed as dean Graham T. Allison '62, a Ph.D. in government and Marshall scholar at Oxford who had previously served as the school's associate dean. At 37, Allison became Harvard's youngest dean, though he had initially declined Bok's offer in part because of the school's financial difficulties...
...appointed as dean Graham T. Allison '62, a Ph.D. in government and Marshall scholar at Oxford who had previously served as the school's associate dean. At 37, Allison became Harvard's youngest dean, though he had initially declined Bok's offer in part because of the school's financial difficulties...
...appointed as dean Graham T. Allison '62, a Ph.D. in government and Marshall scholar at Oxford who had previously served as the school's associate dean. At 37, Allison became Harvard's youngest dean, though he had initially declined Bok's offer in part because of the school's financial difficulties...
...incredible things began happening. The Crimson headline next day: HARVARD WINS, 29-29. Others remember less epic events: sculling on the Charles, drinking at Cronin's, the ludicrous vaudeville shows at the Hasty Pudding Club, the sun rising over the blue dome of Lowell House. And as with Oxford or the Sorbonne, the House of Commons or the Vatican or any other very long-lived institution, 3 1/2 cen- turies of history have probably taught Harvard that all things come and go. And this too -- whatever it may be -- shall pass...
...Great Britain, where universities are not under the strict governmental control of their continental cousins, there is a typically British sense of hierarchy that shapes relations between various schools. There are not wide divergences of quality and prestige in West German universites, for example, but in England, Oxford and Cambridge are, well, Oxford and Cambridge. They are where it's at in British higher education, and the rest of Britain's schools must accomodate to that reality...