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Rice University President George E. Rupp, one-time dean of Harvard Divinity School, was named president of Columbia University Monday...
...rethink their missions, decide what they can do best and -- in a form of academic triage -- abandon certain fields of learning to others. Rice University in Houston has often been called "the Harvard of the South" (although these days the motto should be reversed, claims its president, George Rupp). Rice has flourished by trying to recruit National Merit scholars, who constitute 40% of the class of 1995, and by developing a national reputation for superb teaching in the sciences and social sciences...
...them from embarrassment if they are dropped from consideration. As we have said before, this argument is preposterous. Dartmouth College President James O. Freedman '55 was rejected for the presidency. Wellesley College President Nannerl O. Keohane didn't get the job, either. Neither did Rice University President George E. Rupp. Their reputations have not been destroyed by the snub. They still have managed to hold onto gainful employment...
...addition, several presidents and administrators from other schools have been widely mentioned as possible candidates: Indiana University President Thomas Ehrlich '56; Duke University Provost Philip A. Griffiths; Wellesley President Nannerl O. Keohane and Rice University President George E. Rupp...
...George E. Rupp...