Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone in the University, however, shared the pioneering spirit of these men. President Conant (who loathed psychoanalysis) showed little interest in the proposals for a new department, and it was only when Paul Buck became Provost during the War that the Administration gave the idea serious consideration. With the enrollment of hundreds of veterans at the College after 1945, there was for the first time in the University's history a great demand by students for courses in clinical and social psychology -- the kinds of psychology young people had met with in the armed services. ON January...
...spur "the kind of thinking that wins Nobel Prizes," as Provost Levi puts it, Beadle set up a faculty-raiding "independence fund" that now stands at $3,500,000. While easing out many mediocre men, Beadle in 18 months has increased the faculty from 800 to 930. This year Chief Headhunter Levi has a rich catch, from Yale Historian Leonard Krieger to Michigan Law Professor Frank Allen and Negro Historian John Hope Franklin of Brooklyn College. Vows Levi grimly: "We are going to take the best men we can find, although we will probably raise faculty salaries across the country...
Zenas R. Bliss, provost of Brown University, said last February that tuition at Brown will remain at $1600 next year, but did not guarantee that tuition would not increase in the fall...
Last winter, Labaree accepted an Associate Professorship of History at Williams. When the present dean, Robert Brooks, resigned the Williams post to join the foreign service, Labaree was chosen for the job. Aside from his work with the President and the Provost in the college administration, Labaree plans to continue teaching history...
...been asked to wear. Carol Schectman gives us a plump-cheeked, milkmaid, Putney-girl Isabella and somehow makes a two-dimensional part seem barely one-dimensional. Jacqueline Winer transforms Mistress Overdone into an inaudible New Orleans madam of the steamboat days; the accents of W.D. Hart's Provost are alternately refined and repulsive; Alfred Guzetti is a childish Elbow; Stanford M. Janger an exhausted Lucio. There are also an Escalus and a Barnadine...