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President Derek C. Bok yesterday attacked a speech by Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, saying that in delivering the address--which is highly critical of Harvard--the secretary has lost an opportunity for fruitful debate on issues about higher education...
...Secretary Bennett's speech raises important questions about the role of universities and the education they offer. Instead of pursuing the questions in an informed and sober manner, he has followed his penchant for delivering highly publicized polemics against educational practices which he has not studied in detail and policies with which he happens todisagree," Bok said in a statement about thespeech which will be delivered in Sanders Theatertoday...
After reading an advance copy of the speech,Bok decided yesterday afternoon to respond toBennett's criticisms immediately after thesecretary's address, said Vice President forGovernment, Community and Public Affairs JohnShattuck. The address is one of the highlights ofthe week-long undergraduate 350th celebrationwhich ends on Sunday...
...speech is an attack directed towardHarvard, universities, and the world, in thatorder," Shattuck said...
...Bennett's speech is in the spirit ofcontroversial speeches at Harvard," Shattuck said."I salute him for as he would see it coming to thelions' den and provoking controversy," Shattucksaid, adding, "and he certainly will...