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...Becoming a college president today," The Crimson editorialized as Derek Bok took his first tentative steps in Massachusetts Hall, "is like signing on to administer the Munich pact in 1939." If the resignation of Nathan M. Pusey '28 had dulled the volume of protest, it had done little to get at the underlying conflicts. Harvard, as Bok told the Corporation fellows who first approached him about the job, needed something more than a man who could deal with the "problems of the moment." "Even if we happen to have weathered the physical disorders," the new president said in his first...
...always this way. In the spring of 1971, when Nathan Pusey, announced his decision to vacate Massachusetts Hall, the Harvard Corporation embarked on a search for the right man to put the University back together again. Faced with a divided Faculty and an angry, unified student body, his effectiveness as a leader paralyzed the previous spring by his decision to call in the police to quell the student strike, Pusey buckled to demands for his resignation. As Corporation members looked for a new University leader, they realized that the days of a strong-arming, personal presidency had drawn...
...member, the "most unassailable" choice. Virtually unknown in the College, in his two and-a-half years as dean of the Law School, Bok had acquired a reputation as peacemaker and diplomat. While other parts of the University boiled over, Bok had kept the Law School on simmer. While Pusey had called the cops to break up the occupation of University Hall, Bok had pursued the opposite tack. When a group of protesters held an all-night "study in" at the Law School's library, Bok ordered coffee and doughnuts and thanked the students for "coming to show your concern...
...sense of duty." Bok had already shrugged off presidential feelers from Stanford, Amherst and Dartmouth, but this was Harvard, "a quite different case" in Bok's measured words, which drew on "particular loyalties." For the man who called the day after the bust of University Hall (he had urged Pusey not to send in the police) "the saddest day in my life," the decision seemed almost preordained. As Bok told reporters as he and his wife waited for the official phone call on the morning of January 11, 1970 to confirm his selection, "When Harvard asks me to do something...
Previous Bowdoin prize winners include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horatio Alger, former Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey '28, and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University...