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Yale's Economist Edgar Furniss, 67, for 20 years holder of the delicate and demanding position of provost of the university. A sort of buffer zone between the faculty and the corporation, Furniss' office in the Hall of Graduate Studies was the bright hope for any professor with a new idea, a sympathetic court of appeals for any with a problem. No major change has taken place at Yale without first getting the provost's consent, and probably no university official has been so open to new projects. Once a professor suggested that the university publish...
When Hanford retired from the Dean's office, Paul H. Buck, then Provost of the University, remarked, "Above all, he will be remembered as a humane counselor of youth--a man who gave understanding and endless hours to multifold problems of individual students...
Students of the five municipal New York colleges affected by yesterday's resolution barring John Gates from speaking on their campuses indignantly condemned this decision taken by the five college presidents and Provost Thomas V. Garvey of Queens College...
Gates originally had been invited to speak at an Academic Freedom Week program by the Queens College student senate, but Thomas V. Garvey, provost of the college, cancelled the invitation last Sunday...
...Provost of Southwell Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England...