Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply. Says Linguist Noam Chomsky, the fervent antiwar leader: "He's an honest, honorable man." One reason Johnson inspires confidence is that he combines high energy with a low-key manner. "He's open-minded, unflappable, and doesn't get hooked on a single idea," says Provost Jerome Wiesner. Johnson, for example, laid down no rigid contingency plans for the demonstrations. His guiding principle, he says, was to stay flexible and avoid painting the administration into an ideological corner...
...students had been in the building for four hours Monday protesting the firing of a dining hall worker when at 5:15 p.m., Yale Provost Charles Taylor Jr. warned them they had 20 minutes to leave or be suspended. At 5:51 p.m., he announced they were suspended. At 6:35 p.m., the students voted to leave...
...students who participated in the sit-in, however, will face disciplinary action, Paul E. Gray, assistant provost, announced at a press conference late in the afternoon...
...provost Jerome B. Weisner appeared briefly at the sit-in about 3:30 p. m. to read a warning telling the demonstrators that they were blocking the passage...
...press conference later yesterday afternoon Paul E. Gray, associate provost of M. I. T., explained that it was the City of Cambridge and not M. I. T. which sent the police into action when the pickets were deemed to be unlawfully assembled...