Word: provost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Paul Buck retired as Provost last year, his departure was regretted in releases, editorials, and tributes--all with one common failing. They proceeded from the assumption that Buck was lost forever to future Harvard administrations. In the unerring logic of retrospect, this pessimism was unwarranted: the new President and Dean were understandably anxious lest Buck's proven capabilities languish. And Mr. Buck, being Mr. Buck, could not refuse an opportunity to serve...
...rejoins those men willing to sacrifice scholarship and teaching because they see more in University administration than the pruning of budgets and the scheduling of lecture halls. Mr. Buck has not had the benefit of a librarian's education to prepare him for the new position. He had, as Provost, conferred regularly with librarians about all problems, from financing to cataloguing. The job will be new to him but it will not be strange...
Buck, Dean and Provost for 15 years until his resignation in 1953, has served as virtual president of the University twice: when former president James B. Conant '14 was absent for atom research during the war, and later when Conant resigned to serve as West Germany High Commissioner...
Mather is a 39-year-old Ph.D. in Economics who looks slightly old for his age but is described by all his associates as a "fireball" of enthusiasm and "a man who knows how to talk to the Legislature." As provost of the University before he was named president last year, he worked closely with many student leaders, and as president he has tried to preserve this relationship, even though, as he admits, some faculty members think he spends too much time with the students. The students themselves, however, have a sincere liking for their president; they appreciate, among other...
...Former Provost of the University and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Paul H. Buck, professor of History, will return after a year of absence to teach History 165, the History of the South. Because of the intensity of present interest generated by the recent Supreme Court decision and the South's industrial renaissance, a course in the area's history--especially with Buck--would be worth almost anyone's time...