I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

2010. Princeton University Press. After fifteen years away from the Harvard presidency Bok led the University on an interim basis from Lawrence Summers's resignation on July 1 2006 until the beginning of the tenure of Drew Gilpin Faust on July 1 2007.

He is the son of Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice Curtis Bok and Margaret Plummer Bok; the grandson of Ladies' Home Journal editor Edward W. K.