Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul Buck's "Remembrance of Themes Past" is a case in point. Former Dean of the Faculty, Provost, and co-chairman of the Committee on General Education which produced the Redbook, he was an ardent warrior for improved undergraduate education in the forties and early fifties. But Buck the engaged combattant has become the retired soldier wistfully retelling the pasts' battles. He concludes by saying "I believe that a truly liberal education for today and tomorrow will combine a program of general education, a program of specialism [departmental education], and a collegiate way of living [a house system...
Thimann and his wife were Masters of East House from 1962 to 1964. He is leaving Harvard in June to become Provost of College Three of the University of California at Santa Cruz...
Kenneth V. Thimann, Higgins Professor of Biology, will deliver the, Baccalaureate address on June 15. Thimann, who was master of East House from 1962-64, will become Provost of College Three of the University of California at Santa Cruz in September...
Honored at a noon luncheon in the War Memorial Auditorium were Harvard's William P. Murphy, John F. Enders, James D. Watson, Edward M. Purcell, Konrad E. Bloch and Charles A. Coolidge '17. The seventh man honored was Charles H. Townes, provost of M.I.T. and 1964 Nobel winner in physics...
...retreated and barred two who had been cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions put by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The same pair addressed 300 students at the University of Michigan without incident. "The tighter you put the lid on," says John Gustad, provost of New College, Fla., "the bigger the explosion is likely...