Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Higher snobbery was the answer President Conant had for the educational philosophy of Chancellor Robert M, Hutchins of Chicago University, at Princeton's sessions on "the Humanistic Tradition in the Century Ahead," as reported by the Associated Press Saturday...
...hand, Austria hoped for U.S.-British aid and dreaded being left in the lurch by the West. A simple news item like General Mark Clark's confinement to Walter Reed Hospital (because of an ear infection) created a minor sensation. Jittery Chancellor Leopold Figl, formerly a model of imperturbability, inquired whether Clark's illness was not political...
Hugh Dalton, Great Britain's scholarly, well-groomed Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been chosen chairman of the joint boards of governors, to succeed U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder. London had been chosen for next year's meeting place...
...nonpayment of a bill, Sears, Roebuck & Co. stepped in and bought the bankrupt Encyclopaedia Britannica* Three years ago Sears decided that the publication of an encyclopedia was "foreign" to its merchandising business, made an outright gift of the venture to the University of Chicago. Last week Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that it was time to make better use of Britannica and its film and publishing subsidiaries in his favorite crusade: adult education. He turned over the university to President Ernest C. Colwell for nine months, and moved to the Loop to work full time at Britannica...
Elected in June as vice-president of the Alumni Association, R. Keith Kane '22 has accepted the chairmanship of a $15,000,000 fund raising campaign for New York University's section of the N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center, Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase announced yesterday. Kane, after taking his A.B. here, studied at Oxford and returned to take a degree from the Law School...