Word: dreben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professors acknowledge that Dreben's unusual task of drawing up these committees and serving on them ex officio gives him unusual influence in batting down a department's nomination...
...There is no room for him to be kingmaker. There is room for him to be a destroyer of excessive ambitions," says John D. Montgomery, chairman of the Government Department, who deals periodically with Dreben on appointment matters...
Rosovsky simply calls Dreben "a powerful voice in the dean's office...
...chief source of Dreben's power is his role of assembling scholars to sit on Harvard's ad hoc committees. These are groups composed of both inside and outside professors, which review every departmental tenure nomination and make a recommendation to President...
...part, Dreben says, "I know at times I have been criticized for perhaps showing bias. But--and I don't want to sound Pollyannish--all of us engaged in the process try very hard to get as strong an independent committee...