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...Caltech, University of Chicago Law Dean Edward H. Levi persuaded him to give up a life of scholarship and research to take the Chicago presidency. A few years later, when the University of California sought out Levi as chancellor at Berkeley, Beadle told Levi, then Chicago's provost: "If you want to run a university, why don't you take my place and run this one?" Levi stayed on at Chicago-and last week he was named by its trustees to succeed Beadle, who will retire next year. Levi will become Chicago's eighth chief executive...
...been linked with the university. He grew up in the school's Hyde Park neighborhood, attended its laboratory schools from kindergarten through high school, went on to earn his law degree there. His entire academic career has been spent at the university as professor, law dean and provost...
Brewster had been promoted to full professor at Harvard and was serving on top faculty committees when his longtime friend, Whit Griswold, by then president of Yale, asked him to become his provost. Although he had no Ph.D. and no administrative experience, he quickly accepted. His acceptance was dictated partly by his admiration for Griswold and his affection for Yale. It was also, he recalls, "a decision you make at 40 to find out what you're good at." Brewster turned out to be so good at the job that the Yale Corporation promoted him to the presidency when...
Some professors at the two schools regarded the student spies as an outrageous violation of academic freedom. Campus authorities, as well as many students, saw it differently. Cornell Provost Dale R. Corson said that the school had always assisted police in drug investigations and would continue to do so. Fairleigh Dickinson's President Peter Sammartino declared that "no institution has the right not to cooperate with any law-enforcement agency." They have good reason to cooperate. Last week U.S. Narcotics Commissioner Henry L. Giordano reported that arrests for use of marijuana have doubled since 1965. One cause...
...College for nine years. He first joined the Harvard administration after World War II as assistant counselor, and then counselor, for veterans at Harvard. In this position he helped advise some 9000 veterans returning to college under the G.I. Bill. At this time he also served as assistant to Provost Paul H. Buck...