Word: dean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty deficit, the first since fiscal 1967, represents only 29 per cent of the losses originally anticipated by Dean Ford. It will be offset with funds from the departmental balance-an accumulation of previous surpluses. Ford declined to comment on the budget until Tuesday's Faculty meeting, when the complete Financial Report will be released...
Although Liller's proposal has not yet been released, Dean Ford said yesterday that it was "much better prepared than last year's," referring to general proposals by both Chalmers and Liller for limited coed living exchanges...
...appointment as Dean of Harvard College May undoubtedly realizes that he will have to deal again with unrest over Harvard's relationship to government policy. So far May has acted quietly to bridge feelings between the Faculty and administration and to aid curriculum reform. He says that this function is mediation, not advocacy. He is a diplomatic historian, cautious in his sentences, cradling a thin-stemmed pipe several seconds before answering any question. Small tie-knot, two-button grey suit and flat-top haircut: unobtrusive except that he seems to neigh when he smiles...
...will probably be most effective in healing division in the Faculty. He is staying clear of any affiliation with the conservative caucus now that he is Dean. Since his appointment he has gone to only one meeting of the conservatives ("with the full knowledge of the other side") in order to discuss possible agreement on the Heimert discipline proposal. He plans to meet with Walzer and the liberals soon...
Such divine right theorizing will not ease the Faculty's jealousy over powers of self-discipline. Still, May's straddle between faculty and administration as an Acting Dean should make the Faculty more confident that their interests will be handled with deference...