Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a few weeks, the cry about their hue forced Conant to make a special report to the Overseers. The President, who at that time did not enjoy the complete confidence of the Faculty he was later accorded, held fast, arguing that the University cannot appoint a man just because his views are unorthodox. "If academic decisions are to be influenced by the fear of their being misinterpreted as interference with academic freedom," Conant said, "then academic freedom itself, to my mind disappears." The New York Herald-Tribune hailed Conant and his stand, describing his as a man "tolerant...
...schools would administer the grants. By working with a joint committee from the graduate schools, they could insure coordination and promote interdepartmental research. An annual report by the department would give the President and the foundations a check on the use of the money. In addition, the President should appoint a review committee to evaluate the program for the benefit of the University, and for foundations that have feared the abuse of small grants...
...outsider, the students told Pusey, would find it difficult to head a faculty which he did not help to appoint, and Williams has already shown his ability to work with the new faculty...
Under the Phi Beta Kappa election system, the Senior Sixteen is appointed by the Junior Eight. The combination of the Eight and the Sixteen will then elect a Junior Eight from 1956 and this group will appoint the final 70 to 80 members from the senior class in the spring term...
They discounted repeated rumors that Eisenhower would appoint a defeated Republican Senator. "Homer Ferguson of Michigan would be absolutely disastrous," Howe said, commenting on one rumored candidate for the court...