Quadrumvirate

Dwight D. Eisenhower had scarcely begun to learn his new job as Columbia University's president before he was whisked off to Washington to become presiding officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet the nation's fourth biggest university* (enrollment 28,800) seemed to just keep rolling along. Who were Ike's deputy commanders while he was away? Last week Columbia identified them.

One of them is 48-year-old Provost Albert C. Jacobs, onetime Oxford lecturer in jurisprudence, wartime naval reserve captain and professor of law at Columbia. Professor Jacobs, provost since 1947, will be Ike's "principal assistant," act as his "alter ego and successor during the president's necessary absences from the university or in the event of an emergency." The other deputies:

P: Dr. George B. Pegram, dean of the graduate faculties, who was named vice president of the university to direct "educational affairs." A physicist's physicist, Dr. Pegram was a key man in the early development of the U.S. atomic energy program, directed Columbia's war research from 1941 to 1945.

P: Dr. Willard C. Rappleye, dean of the faculty of medicine, able and genial boss of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons for the past 18 years, to become vice president in charge of medical affairs. P: Paul H. Davis, general secretary of Stanford University, until he took the same title at Columbia in 1946. As vice president in charge of development, he will be the university's top planner and coordinator of new educational projects.

Columbia had one more title to give--"vice president in charge of business affairs." When that job is filled, President Eisenhower will no longer be swamped, even when he is in Manhattan, with the paper work ("mountainous white piles") which has been coming from the scores of university offices under him.

*The biggest: New York University (47,647); second, University of California (43,469); third, College of the City of New York (33,201).

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