Word: provost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of Pennsylvania, until 1923, called its chief executives Provosts. Until 1926 Josiah Harmar Penniman held the title of President & Provost. Last week the university again evoked the title of President, conferred it upon Thomas Sovereign Gates, class of 1893, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Morgan partner, Drexel partner, board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Standard Steel Works, Midvale Co. From now on Tycoon Gates will be in charge of Pennsylvania's worldly goods. Provost Penniman will continue to direct the institution's scholastic affairs...
...planes: ''Things are going to be different. We are going to fix it so a man can take a couple of lessons on Friday and fly his plane home on Monday without the Department of Commerce saying anything about it. . . . "* Guided by Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, provost of Johns Hopkins University and chairman of the N. A. C. A., the visitors saw latest developments in the committee's research facilities: ¶ A motion picture camera designed to photograph all the dials on an airplane instrument board during a test flight, permitting later study far more detailed than...
...companion on and off campus. Can you think of any thing which would be as graphic a commentary on you college life as the notes and names you have jotted on the margins and covers of these books." To what other books have you granted such intimacy of thought" Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania follows this thought with his remark. "I know of no book that can be more properly valued as an 'association book' than the textbook which represents many hours of work and brings to mind some teacher of the past." The Bates Student
During the same program the appointment of Professor Robert D. French as head of the first Yale quadrangle was announced by President Angell. Dr. Angell also announced that the active charge of the entire quadrangle program would be left to an executive committee of which Charles Seymour, provost of the university, is chairman...