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...with their cleaning equipment. At 12:55 Jill's nerves gave out and she hid under her desk. At 1:15 the clanking became so insistent that neither of them could take it any more Betting on another rumor they'd heard, that the tunnel to Pusey Library stayed open all night, they risked the stairs again and headed all the way down--from...
...reflect President Bok's conscious desire for a decentralized administration made up of experts who independently rule. That structure on the whole seems to have worked remarkably well during Bok's 11 years. Certainly it has eased the fortress mentality that prevailed beore 1971. Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, relied exclusively on a tiny inner circle of all-purpose advisors and was widely blamed for mismanaging events such as the student protests of the late 1960s...
...first glance, that closeness might seem a bit unexpected. Steiner, alone among Harvard's current five vice presidents, was not appointed by Bok himself. He was brought on as Harvard's first general counsel during the final, embattled year of the Nathan M. Pusey '28 presidency. (Before Steiner's appointment, Pusey recalls, "You couldn't turn around without running the risk of getting involved in some legal complication.") Nor do Steiner and Bok come from similar social backgrounds. Bok was reared in Philadelphia's affluent, tree-lined Main Line suburbs, and Steiner grew up in middle-class neighborhoods...
...suggested that Harvard become a city in itself, just like the Vatican in Rome [President Nathan] Pusey would have become king...
President Bok took over from Nathan M. Pusey The worst of the student protests but at a point when it was clear that the President needed more assistance than Pusey had when he tailed to respond effectively to campus unrest Bok turned Massachusetts Hall, traditional headquarters for the University, into a highly bureaucratized network of vice presidents and personal advisors. His system has, by and large, succeeded in moving the University back into smooth waters with Admiral Bok relying heavily on his individual captains to maintain the prosperity and academic success Harvard enjoys...