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William G. Bowen, an economist and provost of Princeton, was named president of Princeton Monday, ending a seven month search for the university's seventeenth president...
Peter Wendell, president of Princeton's senior class, yesterday expressed mixed reactions to Bowen's appointment. Wendell said that the provost is "obviously an expert in the business and financial management of the university," but added that there were those "who feel he may lack visionary and humanistic characteristics that one looks for in a president...
William G. Bowen, Provost of Princeton University, and Aaron Lemonick. Dean of the Graduate School of Princeton University, are said to be the leading contenders for the 17th president of Princeton University, the Daily Princetonian reported Wednesday...
...endless game of guessing who's really who in Proust gets another whirl from Novelist Elizabeth Bowen. She takes the character of Bergotte, Proust's fictitious writer of fiction, and after wondering briefly whether the original might have been Anatole France, finally decides Bergotte is really a "standin, scapegoat, whipping-boy for" Proust-particularly as a purple stylist and a snob...
What Bill Bowen suggested was that merely to maintain the program that you have--keep up the library, maintain the departments and the teaching programs that you have--requires a growth of expenditure every year which exceeds the likely growth in revenue which you will get from traditional sources, namely tuition, foundation giving, government grants of a traditional variety, alumni contributions and so forth. Now when you have such a divergence--even a divergence of only a couple of percentage points--you go through the following process if these tendencies persist over a large number of years. You begin...