Word: chairmen
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Biggest of the committees, the Social Service Committee, will be seeking to improve its work in 43 local settlement houses and boys' clubs. Activities there range from basketball, wrestling, and carpentry to debating, dramatics, and science. Co-chairmen John c. Pittenger '51 and Jed Dreifus '50 hope to supply the settlement houses with well over 200 men this year...
...tutoring line, Brooks House has recently been enlarging its "Undergraduate Faculty" which helps underprivileged boys with their studies either individually or in study hall groups in the settlement houses. Piano instruction and help for blind College students are added features planned this year by Chairmen Anthony G. Oettinger '51 and associate Chairman David W. Allen...
...battle lines were drawn. Behind Gabrielson were ex-Willkieites Ralph Cake of Oregon and Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, hard-shelled ex-Chairmen Carroll Reece and Harrison Spangler, Minnesota's indefatigable Stassenite Mrs. F. Peavey Heffelfinger. Behind Dewey were many Westerners who resented the idea of a Wall Streeter in the chairmanship. Also behind Dewey was old Joe Grundy...
...echoes that concertgoers had loved to grumble about in the past-but it had replaced them with some equally awesome squeaks and yowls. When the program ended, the crowd gave the musicians (mostly New York Philharmonic-Symphony men) a big hand, listened politely and impatiently while Concert Co-Chairmen Mayor William O'Dwyer and Sam Lewisohn said a few words. Then they set up their usual shout for the person they really wanted to hear talk...
There is only one way to assure a solution of the problem. University administrators, from assistant deans and department chairmen up through university presidents, must be prepared to show the greatest integrity and personal courage to protect the freedom of their teachers. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams is exemplary among current administrators: he has withstood extreme alumni pressure in protecting a teacher's right at the height of a crucial drive for endowment--the weakest spot of a private school today...