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Where Bok really made a difference, colleagues say, was in his restructuring of the University's administration. Bok streamlined the antiquated systems used by Pusey, establishing several new vice presidencies to delegate responsibilities. Bok then put Harvard's stocks under the charge of the Harvard Management Corporation in 1973, and created the Development Office to coordinate and intensify fundraising efforts...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: After Two Decades at Harvard, Bok Gets a Well-Earned Rest | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...work out such a plan. I am not one of them. I am not sure I have ever even met one of them. I think of new things I want to look for when I am wedged between two of the movable stacks on the third level of Pusey--P3, as the library cognoscenti know it. Then I have to trek all the way back to Widener circulation to find a HOLLIS machine...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Bigger Isn't Better | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

POINT 2. Change. Not the earth-shaking kind advocated by our crusading campus revolutionaries, but the loose kind which is almost nowhere to be found in the Widener-Pusey-Lamont system. Where on earth is one supposed to get it? Sure, there are change machines over by the Xerox machines. But they only take $1 bills...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Bigger Isn't Better | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

Nonetheless, I strongly suspect that Widener does not suffer so much from a space problem as from an allocation of space problem. Anyone who has ever threaded the tortuous subterranean path from Widener to Pusey knows that the library system contains many empty corridors which could conceivably house books...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Bigger Isn't Better | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

Anyone who has spent more than a week here knows that Harvard operates on the RHIP principle--here, as in any large organization, Rank Hath Its Privileges. One consequence of this policy is that senior faculty members are eligible to receive "studies"--Harvardspeak for small offices--in Widener and Pusey...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Bigger Isn't Better | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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