Word: provost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fancy Knots. When the shooting war was over, Franks ("the greatest civilian discovery of the war") could have been head of Britain's Steel Board or had his pick of many glittering big business jobs. He turned them all down to go back to Oxford as provost of his old college. But the following year, in 1947, when a stricken and bankrupt Europe was feverishly fingering the hope just held out by the Marshall Plan, Ernie Bevin, now Foreign Minister, called Franks from his cloister to head the British delegation to the 16-nation Paris conference...
...enrollment drop is in line with Provost Buck's plans to reduce the College to 4,300 by 1951. This is the first year that Harvard's reducing program is working out, since the Dean's Office miscalculated the effects of the draft last year and ended up with 400 more students than it expected...
...lower enrollment has also meant the new $600 tuition. According to Provost Buck, the College would suffer a $400,000 deficit if it continued on the old tuition rate this year. The $600 fee is expected to keep Harvard in the black even when it slips to a normal 4300 registration...
...Provost Buck announced that Professor George Daux of the Sorbonne in Paris will exchange teaching jobs with Professor Kenneth J. Conant of the Graduate School of Design...
...Apologies. Like the U.S. Commission on Freedom of the Press (TIME, March 31, 1947), the 17-member Royal Commission was mainly composed of nonjournalists; it was headed by Sir David Ross, provost (now emeritus) of Oxford's Oriel College and a distinguished Aristotelian scholar. As Britain's press lords paraded before the commission, they made no apologies...