Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sight, the same people at Mass Hall or Holyoke Center would talk about Greek studies calmly and with a brave hint of enthusiasm in their voices as they ventured that a professorship in Modern Greek Studies might become a reality in five or six years. Now that a chair has actually been endowed with the necessary $1 million, inquiries about the program seem to grate on official nerves. As usual, you can wrangle some gossip here and there. But the aura of intrigue surrounding this story is definitely not routine...
...slim blue brochure that falls open like an accordion to reveal a thumbnail photo on each of its rectangular faces (among these are Bok, the chair's namesake George Seferis and an ancient Greek coin labeled "The Cost") was printed this summer. Apparently, that's about the extent of Harvard's participation in the campaign for funds. When asked if the University Development Office was actively arranging for the chair, Charles D. Thompson '48 replied that "actively is a funny word; my office is handling a lot of programs at this point" and conceded that, unlike with other programs...
...least psychologically, a vigorous push to finance the Program for Modern Greek Studies seems like a pretty shrewd move right now. Reliable sources contend that Constantine A. Trypanis, the Greek Minister of Civilization and Culture, spent two days in Cambridge last July to clinch an agreement on the chair between Harvard and the Greek government. Trypanis left a check for $1 million to endow the George Seferis Professorship in Modern Greek Studies. A lump sum of $2 million will make the entire program feasible by providing for an assistant professorship, two graduate student fellowships and library funds...
...latest report from the Recording Secretary's office is that an endowment of $1 million for the George Seferis chair was submitted to the Corporation and approved by it on Sept. 8. But this information is confusingly pitted against the word of another official source, President...
...says the Corporation does not ordinarily approve such endowments. The only way this could have happenend, he says, is "If a special exception were being made by funding a chair that didn't have the normal amount necessary or for which the full amount would be delayed," or if "a certain gimmick" were involved. When pressed for assurance that a "gimmick" did not figure in this case, Bok limited himself to a slightly ambiguous last remark: "The Corporation would very rarely approve a gift of money, and I was present at that meeting and I do not remember any such...