Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Arrogant?--At the University of Chicago, at least, folks aren't so hypersensitive about the presidential search. Although the school has two curious ties to the search--Chicago President Hanna H. Gray is on the search committee and Chicago Provost Gherard Casper has emerged as a leading candidate--Geoffery Stone, dean of Chicago's law school, insists "There's no effect. Only at Harvard would people think that their search has an effect on other campuses...
...celebrate traditions older than Caxton's printing press, Eton is, behind its ancient walls, steadily redressing itself for a more modern age. Perhaps the most hallowed tradition at Eton is a defiance of all expectations. And during the past 10 years, the school's headmaster, Eric Anderson, and its provost, Lord Charteris of Amisfield, have quietly set about revolutionizing the classic institution from within. Realizing, as Anderson stresses, that Eton must prepare its students for a more international world, it has opened its doors to more and more scholarship students and to boys from Germany, the Soviet Union and Spain...
...some professors have better contacts than others. Harvard recently offered a tenured post to former MIT provost John M. Deutch, who is known for his government ties and previous experience in various presidential administrations...
...chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., Rockefeller Foundation director, Roger B. Porter, chief domestic policy adviser to the Bush Administration and IBM professor of business and government at the Kennedy School; and Neil L. Rudenstine, executive director of the Mellon Foundation and former Princeton provost, are in the poll...
...very much excited about this development," said Columbia Provost Jonathan R. Cole. "The fundraising drive is oriented towards recruiting young, able people and improving existing facilities...