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Bruce Chalmers, Professor of Physical Metallurgy at the University of Toronte, has been named Gorden McKay Professor of Metallurgy here, Provost Buck announced last night...
...know only one thing: that we will outlive this battle for the church also, and that this time the battle will not last twelve years." Under this announcement was the signature of the Rev. Heinrich Grüber, Provost of Berlin...
Harvard has not jointed that group of educators, the provost's signature of the A.A.U. Pronouncement notwithstanding. Rather, Provost Buck reversed the expressed policy of President Conant-automatic expulsion-and the Corporation, much to its credit, backed him up in full. All cases have been and will be judged strictly on their individual merits, and no Harvard teacher need fear the stifling rigidity of a blanket rule...
These achievements are clear-cut. Most of the provost's work, however, has been less dramatic. The yearly budget, for example, drab as it may seen, is an annual ordeal which combines all the problems of running the Faculty. As the Corporation's "servant," the Provost must prepare the budget, balancing the many and diverse needs of Faculty research, instruction, and so forth-to the satisfaction of not only the Faculty, but of one of the nation's most parsimonious trustee boards. This includes adjustments in the permanent tenure system, which is not wholly rigid, and in the number...
...difficult to describe the vacuum which provost Buck's departure will leave. The job of Provost, combining charge of numerous organizations like the Harvard Yenching Institute with the task of running the Faculty, involves more detail and more broad scope, more fiscal genius and more grasp of principles, then we can describe in a few paragraphs. Mr. Buck not only filled the job but made it, and through it impressed his ideas firmly on Harvard much to everyone's benefit. Like all posts whose first occupants made them what they are, that of Provost and Dean will be very difficult...