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To the Presidential Search Committee
To the members of the Presidential Search Committee:
In February 1978, one of the worst Nor’easters on record struck New England, paralyzing all of Boston under several feet of snow and shutting down Harvard. Then-president Derek C. Bok was asked why he didn’t close the University as soon as the storm hit. According to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Bok replied, “I tried to, but I didn’t know how.”
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