Derek Bok
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During the past year, universities have begun to attract a new kind of publicity. The most arresting stories to appear in our newspapers have not featured students or professors or even new curricula. They have focused on machines:Hewlett-Packard Gives Five Million Dollar Grant for Computer Equipment to Harvard Medical School
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