Word: cutten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colgate's gruff old President Cutten sized up President-elect Case last week and decided he would do. Barked Cutten, bringing a characteristic lopsided grin to Ev Case's freckled face: "No one ever heard of a bald-headed fool." Like all past Colgate presidents, Case is a Baptist...
Colgate got a new president last week whose bald head belies his years (40). To succeed retiring George Barton Cutten (TIME, Feb. 2), Colgate's trustees chose judicious, pipe-smoking Everett Needham Case, son-in-law of Owen D. Young...
...meeting at the University Club in New York yesterday, the Board of Trustees of Colgate University elected as their ninth president Everett N. Case, instructor in Finance and assistant dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration since 1939. Case will succeed Dr. George B. Cutten, president since 1922, who will retire August...
Arriving at Colgate after twelve years as president of Acadia College, Dr. Cutten found an accumulated deficit of $700,000 and proceeded to make academic history by clearing a surplus for his college every year for 17 successive years. He doubled Colgate's faculty, plant and total assets (now $9,961,054), brought in able young teachers, hired a landscape architect to beautify the campus, made the most of the prestige won for his college by its great football teams. He also introduced in 1928 the famed Colgate Plan, since copied by many other colleges. Similar to the Chicago...
...Cutten believes that college graduates should marry early and have plenty of children. He has three himself. No crony of his faculty or students (says he: "A college president has no friends"), he likes to fish and swap yarns with Yale's Professor Emeritus Billy Phelps. His prime hobby is collecting antique American silver spoons, of which he now has the finest collection in the U.S. At Colgate he often retires to his workshop to hammer spoons himself...