Word: holborn
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When Yale Provost Hanna Holborn Gray was named acting president of the university last May, she became a strong candidate to succeed Kingman Brewster. Before being named U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Brewster himself had followed that very route, vaulting from provost to president. Gray's credentials, moreover, were solid. As provost she was Yale's first top-ranked woman administrator. Before that she served as one of the university's first two women trustees. But last week Hanna Gray, 47, took herself out of the tight competition for the top job at Yale in a most positive...
...European-history scholar (out of Bryn Mawr and Harvard), she has been involved in academic life since her father Hajo Holborn, a history professor at Yale, brought the family to the U.S. from Germany when Hanna was four. She married a fellow history student, Charles Gray, taught at Chicago for eleven years, then was appointed a dean at nearby Northwestern in 1971 before moving on to Yale...
...Yale undergraduates: William Muir ('54), a professor of political science at Berkeley, and Prosser Gifford ('51), a Rhodes scholar and dean of Amherst since 1967. Among Yale faculty members and administrators thought to be on the list are A. Bartlett Giamatti, director of humanities division, and Hanna Holborn Gray, Yale's provost and, after Brewster's resignation, acting president...
Gray, daughter of Yale historian Hajo Holborn, is an expert in European intellectual history who was educated at Bryn Mawr and Harvard. As acting head of Yale, she has slashed fearlessly at Yale's budget and also is weathering a bitter two-month strike by the university's 1,400 blue-collar workers. "She's head and shoulders over the other internal candidates," says one respected faculty member. Yet, he adds, "many of the Old Blues, on whom the university is dependent for much of its future funding, would never accept a woman as president...
Although Mrs. Gray never studied at Yale, she has "a very special feeling" about the place because she grew up in New Haven. Her father, the late historian Hajo Holborn, came to Yale in 1934 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Mrs. Gray herself went to Bryn Mawr before receiving her doctorate from Radcliffe. She has taught at Bryn Mawr, Harvard and the University of Chicago, where her husband Charles now is a professor of English history. Since 1971 she has been dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern, and after describing herself as "stunned...