Word: provost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After twenty years-six longer than anyone else-A. Chester Hanford resigned as dean of the College. Not only had he carried on the tradition of Briggs and Greenough, but as Provost Buck said, he had "added new lustre to it." Having give twenty years of his life to the job, he now wanted a chance to do more research, writing, and teaching in his first love: municipal and state government...
...present the Yale Corporation and Provost Edgar S. Furniss are investigating methods of increasing faculty salaries despite an expected one million dollar deficit. Yale would like to raise the faculty budget some $750,000 but is reluctant to boost tuition in order to finance...
...surprising, considering the Arboretum's prestige and its almost fanatically loyal following, that any effort to change the institution would stir up trouble. At first, however, there was none. In 1945, at Provost Buck's request, Irving W. Bailey, Professor of Plant Anatomy, produced a report on Botany and its Applications at Harvard reviewing the University's sprawling resources in the field. At that time work was split up between nine institutions, one as distant as Cuba and all going their separate ways. Harvard, as Professor Bailey put it, "has acquired too many nests to brood over, and certain...
...December of 1952, the plan further consolidated when Grayson L. Kirk, then vice president and provost of the University, undertook an extensive tour of European capitals discussing cooperative efforts with educational leaders...
...Paul Buck shares the high regard we all have felt for the imaginative library leadership of his friend, Keyes Metcalf. In his years as Provost and Dean of our central faculty, Mr. Buck introduced a series of major problems--ranging from General Education to Applied Science--which required the close cooperation of educator and librarian...