Bok spent 30 minutes with the Overseers, arriving just as they were discussing a Committee on Governance report on restructuring the Administration.

"I think everyone was impressed that he came over and offered himself up in the flesh," one Overseer said later. "We asked him many of the questions that Burr said he couldn't answer in the morning, and Bok was candid when he admitted he didn't know about many of the things.

"That's been the dilemma and the appeal of the man all along. He hasn't revealed himself even to some of his closest friends and yet he has the support of everyone from the Corporation to the CRIMSON," he added.

He walked back from the Faculty Club to the Law School where he found various professors, staff members and students who had prepared a champagne party to celebrate in his office. He left for his house in Belmont at 5:30 p.m. where he found his home "infested with photographers and people from Life magazine."

Bok posed for pictures with his wife and family until about 8 p.m., when he finally had dinner. Then, he said, a reporter from the Boston Globe appeared just as he was taking a "long, hot shower."

"We just drew the line at that point," he said. "It was too much trouble to get dressed."