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When Albert C. Jacobs, onetime provost of Columbia University, took over as chancellor of the University of Denver in 1949, he found D.U. overcrowded, overextended and musclebound. In four years he slashed away about 300 marginal and vocational courses; he streamlined his departments, earmarked the alumni fund for faculty salaries, started a whole new policy of education first and athletics second. The result of his efforts: D.U. began to climb academically, but Chancellor Jacobs' popularity plummeted wildly...
Gerald James Holten, assistant professor of Physics and General Education, will become an associate professor, effective July 1, 1954, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum and lecturer in Semitic Languages, was named yesterday to the Hancock Professorship of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages. The appointment was announced by Paul H. Buck, Provost of the University...
...write to express my regret at the somewhat misleading form of your headline, "Bundy Proposes Individual Treatment of Investigations," in this morning's CRIMSON, Since Harvard, under the leadership of Provost Buck, has already adopted a policy of "individual treatment," I could hardly have been proposing it. I simply explained in answer to a question, why I believe this to be the right course, and in making my explanation I specifically called attention to the fact that it is the course Harvard is already following...
...said Wright, and a "valuable and highly respected member of the Smith College faculty." Temple's President Robert L. Johnson, new head of the Voice of America (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), suspended Philosopher Dunham because "you have deliberately created a doubt as to your loyalty status." And at Harvard, Provost Paul H. Buck said that Professor Furry's antics would "be given full and deliberate consideration by ... university authorities...