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...University of Pennsylvania announced yesterday that Francis Sheldon Hackney will replace Martin Meyerson as president, prompting the resignation of the university's provost...
...provost, Vartan Gregorian, had been considered the leading candidate for the post by both students and faculty. He said after the announcement he would step down from his position because of the widespread disappointment on campus with the decision...
...wave of university presidents brought in to quell unrest on college campuses during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lyman served as provost of the university for three-and-a-half years before his appointment as president. An organizer of one of the country's first teach-ins on the Vietnam War, he became less vocal publicly after assuming the presidency. He is credited with introducing important changes in Stanford's admissions and curricular policies...
...CRIMSON files have expanded since then, but most of the early players have died: Yale president Charles Seymour, Provost Furniss, the "badgering" professor at the forum. But some still remember the incident...
...matter. Fisher told Gleason that Yale administrators were attempting to "have the News story killed inasmuch as it was entirely inaccurate and would only tend to prolong the effects, if any, of the original article in The Harvard Crimson." He also noted that Margenau, the Physics professor, and Provost Furniss had officially denied the Crimson statements attributed to them...