Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some professors at the two schools regarded the student spies as an outrageous violation of academic freedom. Campus authorities, as well as many students, saw it differently. Cornell Provost Dale R. Corson said that the school had always assisted police in drug investigations and would continue to do so. Fairleigh Dickinson's President Peter Sammartino declared that "no institution has the right not to cooperate with any law-enforcement agency." They have good reason to cooperate. Last week U.S. Narcotics Commissioner Henry L. Giordano reported that arrests for use of marijuana have doubled since 1965. One cause...
Monro's capacity to handle the routine and his competence to make difficult innovations were combined no more successfully than when he began to overhaul Harvard's system of scholarships and financial aid. In 1948, he became assistant to Provost Paul H. Buck and two years later moved up to the top post in the Financial Aid Office, a job he held until he became dean. "As the G.I. bill ran out and the World War II veterans got through," explains one former colleague, "it was clear that Harvard was going to have to give more thought to the ways...
...College for nine years. He first joined the Harvard administration after World War II as assistant counselor, and then counselor, for veterans at Harvard. In this position he helped advise some 9000 veterans returning to college under the G.I. Bill. At this time he also served as assistant to Provost Paul H. Buck...
...schedule. The program is annually entitled "Aims of Education" and was supplemented in February of 1966 with a further week free of classes devoted to assessing undergraduate programs. Students have institutionalized several daily coffee and tea hours which faculty and undergraduates attend in equal numbers. After his appointment as Provost in the spring of 1964, Edward H. Levi invited several groups of thirty to forty fourth-year students and faculty members to his house to discuss problems and plans for the educational system...
...military advantage today, and its SABRE guidance system, which controls a missile all the way to target, may make ballistic missiles obsolete tomorrow. Its SAGE and DEW line systems aid in defense against air attack. M.I.T. has contributed its Chairman James Killian, Economists Paul Samuelson and Walt Rostow and Provost Jerome Wiesner to high posts in recent federal administrations. At least 20% of M.I.T.'s graduates become company presidents or vice presidents...