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British military tradition seems useless. Opposed to both men is the camp provost (Tom Courtenay), a working-class martinet who brandishes the rule book on behalf of justice and fair play, though his real battle is against anyone superior to himself by instinct or birth...
Paul H. Buck, Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Chairman, Administrative Committee to Assume the President's Duties (from January to July...
...following day, Furry made the first of four appearances before Congressional investigating committees find, although he denied that he was then a member of the Communist Party, he refused to answer all questions relating to previous CP activity. He justified his silence by the fifth amendment. That night Provost Paul H. Buck issued a statement: Professor Wendell H. Furry's reported refused to answer questions put to him by the House Committee on Un-American Activities will be given full and deliberate consideration by the Harvard University authorities...
...understand the Furry decision it is necessary first to remember the unusual administrative set-up which Conant's departure and the impending Congressional investigations necessitated. The leadership of the University had fallen to Paul Buck, who, as provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was given the job as chairman or a special administrative committee to assume the President's duties. This committee was composed of Dr. Roger I. Lee and Charles A. Coolidge, Fellows of Harvard College, and Paul Cabot, the University Treasurer. The other important ad hoc group was an Advisory Committee of the Faculty...
...body in the Furry case was the Corporation. With Conant gone, Buck, as Provost and Dean, had become, more than ever, the Faculty's representative to to the Corporation. And it would be the five Fellows--Lee, Coolidge, William Marbury, R. Keith Kane, and Thomas Lamont (in descending order of seniority)--and Cabot who would make the final determination about Furry...