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...year was 1971. Dean of Harvard Law School Derek C. Bok had just succeeded the embattled Nathan M. Pusey ’28 as president of Harvard University. John Updike ’54 topped the bestseller list, a war dragged on in Vietnam, and conservative President Richard M. Nixon governed from the Oval Office. On July 1, 2006, newly appointed interim President Bok will again take the reins of the University. Although more than 35 years have passed, the current state of affairs seems to be much the same. Another conservative president sits in the White House, another...
...young he was—just 41—when he became president in 1971. If you think Harvard is in “crisis” now, it was nothing compared to the mess Bok inherited: a university divided, bitter and exhausted by battles over the Vietnam war, including the infamous decision by his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, to call the cops into the Yard when students occupied University Hall. By the time my class arrived on campus in 1975, Bok’s calm and deliberate style had already soothed the waters. Although...
...Rise in E.U. imports of leather shoes from Vietnam in the year ending last March, prompting Brussels to propose antidumping duties 40,000 Number of jobs lost in the E.U.'s footwear sector since...
...second go-around in Mass. Hall, Bok faces a challenge that parallels the one he confronted when he took the reins in 1971. At the beginning of his tenure, Bok earned a reputation as a composed and effective leader who successfully dealt with a campus bitterly divided over the Vietnam War, the University’s ties to the military, and race relations at the school...
When Bok assumed the presidency in 1971, he inherited a campus roiled in controversy and deeply divided by the Vietnam War. His predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, came under fire in 1969 for calling police to respond to a student occupation of University Hall...