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Walter A. Rosenblith, provost of MIT, said yesterday that although the institute is not willing to act as a "metropolitan unit" for the Boston area, it does not object to allowing Harvard students to enroll in the program so long as the increased size does not disrupt its functioning...
Harry Woolf, provost of Johns Hopkins University, this week turned down the trustees' offer of the Tufts University presidency. Woolf and Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, were a presidential search committee's first two choices for the position...
...trustees of Tufts University Tuesday offered Harry Woolf, provost of Johns Hopkins University, the presidency of Tufts after six months of interviewing candidates, Harry B. Zane, director of Public Information at Tufts, said yesterday...
Wilson has, in fact, been acting president at Chicago since Edward Levi left last February to become U.S. Attorney General. Before that, Wilson, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford, was Levi's right-hand man as provost for five years, and earlier was dean of faculties. One of Wilson's toughest jobs as president will be to sustain the threeyear, $280 million fund drive designed to keep Chicago one of the top universities in the nation; started in June 1974, the fund drive has produced $110 million...
Even though as provost he had to enforce painful budget cuts, Wilson is popular with the faculty. He already had a run-in with leaders of the student government, however, after they told him last month that they were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and his ties with economists in the Chilean junta. A vigorous defender of academic freedom, Wilson replied that he would not tolerate an inquisition. In other matters, Wilson is also a stout individualist; he even turns out to watch Chicago's largely ignored football games...