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...Dreben left the job in 1973, when incoming Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky asked his friend to head the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). But Dreben still remains the authority on legislative matters at Faculty meetings. For instance, at the Faculty's last meeting on February 14, it was Dreben to whom Bok turned for a judgement of order in the debate over the Reserve Officers Training Corps...
...this three years on the job, Dreben carried GSAS through a painful period of shrinkage owing to financial stringencies. His principle legacy is the current financial aid plan, which offers admission only to as many students as the school can afford...
After steering the GSAS through "a very critical juncture in the graduate school's history," as he terms it, Dreben took a year of leave from the Faculty to settle into his new position as chairman of the Society of Fellows, which he still holds...
...next year, 1977, Rosovsky again tapped Dreben, this time for his current position, special assistant to the dean, which is where his role in the ad hoc process comes...
Because "the people you want are the very people who are booked up years in advance," according to Dreben, it takes at least six weeks to convene an ad hoc committee. But Dreben adds that he is constantly amazed that the process runs so smoothly and defends it as a principle guarantor of the quality of Harvard's Faculty...