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Monro's capacity to handle the routine and his competence to make difficult innovations were combined no more successfully than when he began to overhaul Harvard's system of scholarships and financial aid. In 1948, he became assistant to Provost Paul H. Buck and two years later moved up to the top post in the Financial Aid Office, a job he held until he became dean. "As the G.I. bill ran out and the World War II veterans got through," explains one former colleague, "it was clear that Harvard was going to have to give more thought to the ways...
...schedule. The program is annually entitled "Aims of Education" and was supplemented in February of 1966 with a further week free of classes devoted to assessing undergraduate programs. Students have institutionalized several daily coffee and tea hours which faculty and undergraduates attend in equal numbers. After his appointment as Provost in the spring of 1964, Edward H. Levi invited several groups of thirty to forty fourth-year students and faculty members to his house to discuss problems and plans for the educational system...
...military advantage today, and its SABRE guidance system, which controls a missile all the way to target, may make ballistic missiles obsolete tomorrow. Its SAGE and DEW line systems aid in defense against air attack. M.I.T. has contributed its Chairman James Killian, Economists Paul Samuelson and Walt Rostow and Provost Jerome Wiesner to high posts in recent federal administrations. At least 20% of M.I.T.'s graduates become company presidents or vice presidents...
...future, the university will push for the right to publish all contracted research and, under a faculty proposal that has administration backing, whenever agreement cannot be reached, Harnwell will seek the advice of an eight-man faculty advisory committee on whether to proceed on a contract. Penn Provost David R. Goddard explained, however, that the university will accept secret work during a national emergency and will never divulge information endangering national security. University scientists, he noted, rightly published nothing on nuclear fission while Nazi Germany was trying to create an atomic bomb...
...Professor, Reischauer will not be tied to any department, and will be free to teach and do research anywhere in the University. The Board of Overseers voted this Spring to offer him the position. The six other University professors are Paul A. Freund, constitutional lawyer; Paul H. Buck, former provost and American historian; Edward M. Purcell, Nobel laureate in physics; Edward S. Mason, economist; John F. Enders, Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology; and Merle Fainsod, an authority on Russian government and Director of the University Library...