Word: provost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, October 16.--Henry Solon Graves, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1892, today was elected provost of Yale University, to succeed Wilbur L. Cross. Mr. Graves is dean of the School of Forestry and will continue to occupy this position. He was formerly chief of the United State Forestry Service...
...Provost of the University of Pennsylvania: We need a million and a half from the State in the next two years, or our books will show a deficit...
General Leonard Wood will remain in the Philippines as governor general, resigning his appointment as provost of the University of Pennsylvania according to an announcement made yesterday...
...against this and other selective-process programmes of college Presidents it is agreeable to cite the objections of Acting Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania to the "un-American policy", of adopting "a method of selecting candidates which in any way violates the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence or the rights of American citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution". It is a serious thing, as he says, "to shut the door in the face of the eager, aspiring, earnest youth who has set his heart on coming to college...