Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future, the university will push for the right to publish all contracted research and, under a faculty proposal that has administration backing, whenever agreement cannot be reached, Harnwell will seek the advice of an eight-man faculty advisory committee on whether to proceed on a contract. Penn Provost David R. Goddard explained, however, that the university will accept secret work during a national emergency and will never divulge information endangering national security. University scientists, he noted, rightly published nothing on nuclear fission while Nazi Germany was trying to create an atomic bomb...
...Professor, Reischauer will not be tied to any department, and will be free to teach and do research anywhere in the University. The Board of Overseers voted this Spring to offer him the position. The six other University professors are Paul A. Freund, constitutional lawyer; Paul H. Buck, former provost and American historian; Edward M. Purcell, Nobel laureate in physics; Edward S. Mason, economist; John F. Enders, Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology; and Merle Fainsod, an authority on Russian government and Director of the University Library...
...idea of a conscription lottery is far from new. The U.S. used it in July 1917 to pluck 687,000 draftees from 10 million registrants between the ages of 21 and 31. Conceived by Army Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder, the drawing was made in Washington from 10,500 numbered slips of paper (10,500 was the largest number of registrants signed up with any single local board). The first number pulled from the fishbowl was 258, and every registrant with that number was called. In all, 1,374,000 men took physical exams; 70% passed and then...
Produced under the leadership of Lord Franks, provost of Oxford's Worcester College and a former Ambassador to the U.S., the report proves that the university is chaotically administered. Its 31 independent colleges, three graduate societies and five private halls of clerical study do not even have central admissions policies. If Oxford somehow has been making progress anyway, the report says wryly, "it is a bizarre achievement to show great skill in avoiding obstacles of one's own creation...
...provost of England's Coventry Cathedral explained after his new and radically beautiful church had risen beside the ruins of the old cathedral bombed out in 1940, "History has given us a chance to experiment, but we're not banging cymbals and drums." Maybe not then, but some distinctly unconventional sounds were issuing from Coventry last week as Duke Ellington, 66, staged the European premiere of his jazzy Concert of Sacred Music, swinging out on the steps of the chancel beneath Graham Sutherland's tapestry of Christ in Glory (TIME cover, Dec. 25, 1964). "There...