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...Harvard Administration: ALL RIGHT WE ARE TWO NATIONS. Prime Minister Nehru writes a letter strongly praising Pusey's "forceful defense of the principles of non-violence." Kennedy cables support of Pusey, too, calling him "a great President," and "little brother." Pusey cables Nehru an impulsive offer of the deanship of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which Nehru declines, calling Pusey "a tower of strength and a pillar of wisdom...
...Union Theological Seminary, an Army meteorologist, an Army chaplain and a Carleton College professor of religion. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University with a thesis on theology and physics. He is married and the father of sons 15 and 16 years old. Last year he quit his deanship at Carleton because "I don't think college administrations are fertile sources of profound ideas...
Away from Heaven. In 1955 Mary Bunting was offered the deanship of Douglass College, the women's branch of New Jersey's state-run Rutgers University, and her decision was characteristic. She felt she had to show her children that people move on, even from "heaven." As it turned out, Douglass fascinated her. It was full of girls who were the first of their families to go to college-yet they really had no idea why they were there. Dean Bunting set out to promote "greater self-confidence. I didn't think these girls realized how able...
Bundy's predecessor, Paul S. Buck, set the precedent for a strong Deanship, not only when he took over as Provost during Conant's extended period of service in Washington, but because he took over as Dean when Conant's relations with the Faculty were distinctly strained--following an explosion over tenure appointments that had not been patched up in the five years between the "revolt of the Faculty" and Buck's appointment...
...around the Horn, the other crossed the continent by oxcart. At 25, he was both an assistant professor and an assistant dean at Harvard's business school. In World War II the Navy put him in charge of recruiting all officer candidates. At 32, he took on the deanship of Syracuse University's sagging business school. He remade the school, went on to do the same job at the University of North Carolina. In 1948 he was called on to help organize the $3 billion Ford Foundation. He has since disbursed some $50 million to jack up economic...