Word: provost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rutgers last week named Dr. Mason Welch Gross, 47, best known for his off-campus success as a TV answer man, as its new president. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 197 Ibs.), mild, mustached Philosophy Teacher Gross joined the 14,000-student university in 1946, has served as provost, vice president and acting president since the school's former head, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, resigned last August...
According to Shannon McCune, Provost of the University of Massachusetts, that institution received only about 90 cents per student under the Program. "This is almost silly," he added, "but nobody shoots Santa Claus...
...paper followed with an editorial suggesting that the administration's reasons and its policy toward the student newspaper be brought out in the open. The provost, Admiral Richard E. Conolly, replied that the editorial was "damaging to the faculty and in bad taste." Tlumak received a letter from the Administration asking for his resignation "to avoid further occurrences," and he complied. Tlumak resigned, he said, "to prevent any faculty or administration from censoring material published in the newspaper...
...University Professor received a Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his "Road to Reunion," a study of the reconstruction days in the South. He was both Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from...
...newspaper accounts, the good captain "stood erect in front of his men, during the whole engagement, but escaped all injury, except having about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well as his uniform, was still nearly...