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...glance at the colonial-period College Laws now sate guarded in Pusey Library's Harvard Archives shows Harvard has made more than a handful of reforms since the days of cloaks, Classics, and clerics...
...should never forget that Bok was the hero who brought coffee and doughnuts to his law students in 1969, while [then-president] Pusey was calling in the state troopers to break the heads of his students. The instinct active in the Bok of 1969 will steer him away from sustaining apartheid, and back to himself. Bok was not an opportunist in 1969. His response was not just astute, it was fresh and genuine and it made him the only possible choice for president. Let Bok end his term as president as honorably as he began its he still has that...
From the beginning of the search, Bok was regarded by many as the clear-cut first choice. In what is known by long-time administrators as "the time of troubles," Bok had proven himself as an adept conciliator, no small accomplishment compared to the man he replaced, Nathan M. Pusey '28, who had summoned the police to evict the demonstrators who had taken over University Hall. One of Bok's most celebrated moments was when, as dean, he showed up to confront student occupants of Langdell Hall armed only with coffee and doughnuts...
...think that Derek has to be realistic in all that he does," says Weinreb. "He's not an ideologue or a banner waver. In a University of ideologues, I guess he does look like a pragmatist."Three presidents: BOK, NATHAN M. PUSEY '28, and JAMES B. CONANT...
...When he came in, you have no idea how primitive the administration of the University was," says Calkins, who often served eloquently as the point man for Pusey and the Corporation during the troubled years...