Article March 27, 1989 Issue

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From President's Report 1986-87, Harvard University, by Derek Bok

... Many colleges and professional schools do a good job of conveying knowledge and imparting skills. ...

Important as these achievements are, events in the past year may cause many people to ask more of our universities than knowledge and skills. Revelations about the conduct of [certain religious, financial, and government figures] have prompted fresh concern over the standards of behavior exhibited by influential people in our society. Suddenly, ethics has become a national preoccupation able to command even the cover of Time magazine.

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