Word: malott
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...went to Cornell in 1944 as an expert on developing new kinds of hay and other forage crops, became dean of the graduate school in 1953 and provost of the university in 1955. Popular with the faculty, Atwood might have succeeded Cornell's retiring President Deane W. Malott. This spring the job went to an outsider, Carnegie Corporation Vice President James A. Perkins, and Emory feels all the richer...
...happy hybrid of U.S. higher education is Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.-an Ivy League school with a Big Ten flavor. Part of it is private and impeccably elite; part of it is public and happily egalitarian. In riding such disparate horses, President Deane W. Malott, 64, has spent eleven years "trying to reduce chaos to disorder." Now he is retiring in favor of James A. Perkins, vice president of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation of New York. At 51, Perkins took the job partly because "I was ready for a large, tough proposition." He got it. Says Cornell...
...central force. It is run by faculty committees so fiercely independent that major change is difficult. By long tradition, the president's powers are limited. He cannot hire or fire professors, or even expel students. In 1958, student rioters pelted the president with eggs, chanting "We want Malott shot!" He wanted the ringleader to go degreeless, but a faculty committee turned him down. When he tried to start a Dartmouth-style "great issues" course, he was also turned down, more or less because it was his idea...