Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take a scholar of liberal mind who abhors U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Make him provost of a great university that is racked inside by antiwar demonstrators and resented outside by right-wingers. Caught between conflicting loyalties, how will he behave...
Unlike many liberal academics in that fix, Richard Lyman never wavered. As a historian, he had organized one of the country's first Viet Nam teach-ins. But as Stanford's vice president and provost, he put the university's survival first. After the invasion of Cambodia last spring, Lyman sent a personal telegram to President Nixon decrying the move, then opposed halting classes in support of the student strike. He was overruled by the faculty. He also called the police after students occupied an administration building to protest the university's war-related research. Said...
Undaunted by current fads (his hair is short, his ties 1960 width), Lyman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, a Harvard Ph.D. and an expert on contemporary British history. As provost for 31 years, he increased the admission of minority students and spearheaded curriculum reforms. Skilled in the vanishing art of dialogue, he delivered frequent briefings over the campus radio last spring and has now scheduled a weekly press conference. He seeks reform, but intends to fight disruption. "We have to preserve order," he said last week, "because if we do not, someone else who does not understand...
Donald F. Hornig '40 was selected by the Brown Board of Overseers last March to replace Ray L. Heffner, who resigned to become provost of the University of Iowa. Hornig served on the Harvard Board of Overseers here until last June, when his term expired...
Should Purcell or someone like him (possibly Edwin O. Reischauer) become president, it has been strongly recommended that a man like Derek Bok be named to the new provost or chancellor position and groomed to take over when the president reaches retirement...