Word: provost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, in the words of Paul H. Buck, former provost, and chairman of the committee which wrote the "redbook": "Our problem was to get the Harvard faculty interested in teaching students who are curious rather than compulsed," with the hope that the experimental enthusiasm would in large part counter the danger of superficiality in the basic survey courses...
Although poor acoustics in the dormitories depreciates the value of the Center, the attitude of the 575 graduate Law and Arts and Sciences students supports a passage in the dedication speech of Paul H. Buck, then Provost of the University, five years ago today...
Last week he told his faculty that he had no "dramatic" plans in mind for Brown (3,600 students, 450 on the faculty). But he has made himself one promise that, if kept, will make him a rare sort of president indeed. "In 1949," says Keeney, "Provost Paul Buck of Harvard wrote me that I would do all right as an administrator as long as I continue to think as a professor. That's the spirit in which I intend to carry...
Since Metcalf's appointment as College Librarian in 1937, the Library has added almost two million books. On his retirement, Metcalf will be succeeded as Director of the University Library by Paul H. Buck, former Provost...
...working on the Manhattan Project, and once when the Corporation was choosing a successor to the newly-appointed High Commissioner of Germany. He is known privately as the man who resigned to give the new president a free hand, the last man to fill the powerful office of Provost. A popular professor who gives a course in the history of the South, he is also a gifted administrator to whom President Pusey offered a position at the first possible opportunity...