Word: provost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacques Barzun has been appointed Dean of Faculties and Provost of Columbia University, it was announced yesterday. Barzun and Dean Elder last fall collaborated in compiling a report for the Association of Graduate Schools, urging a revision of the requirements for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees...
...previous volume, Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity, University of Illinois Provost Gordon N. Ray, No. 1 living authority on Thackeray, described the tragedies that went into the making of the "rueful being"-particularly the death of Thackeray's infant daughter Jane and the insanity of his young wife Isabella. The new volume shows the saddened giant in his prime-the famed, wealthy author of Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond; the doting father of two idolizing, teen-age daughters; the hero and leading spirit of all who detested the rambunctious literary supremacy of Charles Dickens. Author Ray's biography...
...just a CBS scriptwriter's way of telling Lassie's 25 million viewers (most of them young, all faithful) that there were going to be some new faces around the famous old farm. The chief newcomer, Jon Provost, 7, was eased into the filmed series 13 weeks before as Lassie's new chum Timmy; this week's episode introduced Timmy's foster parents (Cloris Leachman and Jon Shepodd) for the first time. Gone after three years was Lassie's old playmate Jeff (Tommy Rettig), who in reel life had to go off to high...
...University considered the situation, and decided to separate the posts of Dean of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of Preachers. A committee of leading clergymen, headed by Provost Buck, was named to nominate a new Board Chairman...
Yale's Economist Edgar Furniss, 67, for 20 years holder of the delicate and demanding position of provost of the university. A sort of buffer zone between the faculty and the corporation, Furniss' office in the Hall of Graduate Studies was the bright hope for any professor with a new idea, a sympathetic court of appeals for any with a problem. No major change has taken place at Yale without first getting the provost's consent, and probably no university official has been so open to new projects. Once a professor suggested that the university publish...