Word: dean
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...Peirce '59 will give a course on reasoning and the logic of things at the rooms of the Cambridge Conferences, 168 Brattle street, on Monday and Thursday evenings in February and March at 8 o'clock, Mr. Peirce is a brother of Dean Peirce of the Graduate School, and has been a lecturer on logic at the Johns Hopkins University and was also a member of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Peirce is the most prominent logician in the United States. His improvements in the Algebra of Logic are of world wide reputation...
...stated in Dean Briggs's report that 37 of last year's Freshman class are ranked this year as first year men. The Dean says truly that this shows "the present method of dealing with these inexperienced persons to be still defective," but after all, is any mere method of discipline going to accomplish the whole end in view? According to the Dean's suggestion a Freshman may be made to occupy the position of a merely provisional member of the University until he has done work to warrant his stay, but, efficient as this might be in many cases...
Appended to the President's report, are reports from the heads of the several departments, and from the Treasurer. Dean Briggs's suggestions on the subject of "dropped Freshmen" and his final observations on the relation of the College and the Graduate School are of special interest...
Nineteen hundred-L. Warren (capt), W. G. Porter, N. B. Adsit, R. L. Reed, H. B. Smith, A. L. Dean...
JOHN H. WRIGHT, Dean...