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Provost Edgar S. Furniss says that accepting such secret reports is neither Yale University policy nor practice...
...second reason is the FBI--not just the eight or so regular New Haven agents, but the many more undercover agents, the liaison men on the faculty, the FBI informants, official, semi-official, and just plain snoopers. Provost Furniss himself says that the known agents are only a minority in the New Haven FBI system. No one agrees on this system's area of investigation. In the physics department alone, some feel that every faculty member and student is under surveillance; others believe that few men except applicants for government positions and men involved in government projects are being checked...
...American Committee of Management is composed of President Conant, Dean Hanford, Jerome D. Greene '34, Secretary to the Corporation representing Harvard; and President Charles Seymour, Provost Edgar S. Furniss and Carl A. Lohman, representing Yale...
Many an important pedagogical name has arisen at Yale during his regime: Economist Edgar Stephenson Furniss, hard-driving Dean of Yale's Graduate School; Economist James Harvey Rogers; Lawyer Walton Hamilton; Historian Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff; Geologist Charles Hyde Warren...
...Vincent Astor, Robert Goelet, the Cudahy Brothers, Morgan Belmont, Frederick Prince, the Iselens, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company, who up to this time had not built either the Cambridge or Somerville assembly plants, rented space for thirty-five cars, and made Mr. William E. Furniss an agent. The following year, the Ford Company decided that they would retail cars through dealers, and accordingly signed up the Harvard Automobile Co. as Authorized Distributors. For twenty years they have been exclusively official Ford sales and service representatives. Mr. William E. Furniss is still President of the Company...