Word: provost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provost Edgar S. Furniss says that accepting such secret reports is neither Yale University policy nor practice...
...second reason is the FBI--not just the eight or so regular New Haven agents, but the many more undercover agents, the liaison men on the faculty, the FBI informants, official, semi-official, and just plain snoopers. Provost Furniss himself says that the known agents are only a minority in the New Haven FBI system. No one agrees on this system's area of investigation. In the physics department alone, some feel that every faculty member and student is under surveillance; others believe that few men except applicants for government positions and men involved in government projects are being checked...
Normand R. Cartier, instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures, has been appointed to an assistant professorship in that department, Provost Buck announced over the weekend...
...Provost Jacobs wrote to the chairman of the administration's Committee on Student Organizations, "The university student council has clearly adopted as its policy the avoidance of responsibility for decision as to speakers ... I hereby return to the Committee on Student Organizations the power to decide whether suggested speakers are to be permitted to speak on the university campus...
Clarence A. Dykstra, provost of UCLA, apologized to Laski's sponsors, and termed the delay an "overnight." But students at the university circulated several petitions protesting this "overnight," and U.C.L.A.'s Student Executive Council began a move to obtain some voice in decisions regarding outside speakers...