Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant's "leadership will be missed as his influence will be felt in Germany," said John Sloan Dickey, president of Dartmouth. Grayson Kirk of Columbia said that Conant has given Harvard an "administration of incalculable benefit not only to his own institution, but to all higher education in the country." Kirk, who succeeds Eisenhower, added that "no more appropriate appointment could have been made...
Meeting on Morningside Heights this week, the trustees of Columbia University made short work of picking a successor to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. To be 14th president of Columbia they named Dr. Grayson L. Kirk, 49, the political scientist who has filled the job in all but name ever since Eisenhower became NATO's Supreme Commander 24 months...
Seldom has a large university had so little trouble finding a president with so much executive experience. Even before he was graduated from Miami University in 1924, Kirk put in a year as principal of an Ohio high school. He went to Columbia in 1940 as an associate professor of government, soon proved to be an able administrator as well as a fine teacher. By 1943 he was a full professor; in 1948 he was director of the university's European Institute, in 1949 was appointed provost and later vice president. He also found time to serve...
...Beautiful (MGM) are a gaudy assortment of film folk in a movie about the movies. There is a ruthless Hollywood producer (Kirk Douglas), who is bad; an alcoholic actress (Lana Turner), who is beautiful; a hard-working director (Barry Sullivan) and a Pulitzer Prizewinning author (Dick Powell), who are neither bad nor beautiful...
Just recently Grayson Kirk, who had been Columbia's actions president moved into Eisenhower's job but Pennsylvania and now Harvard still have vacancies...