Word: dean
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...following story is composed of excerpts from an article written for the current Atlantic Monthly by LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, former president of Radcliffe College and Dean of Harvard...
...remember well an occasion when the hose was turned on me. As Dean of the College I was telling the Faculty at the final meeting of the year the records of those candidates for the degree of A.B. who had not met all the requirements. One youth was still deficient in Freshman prescribed English, in which he had failed annually. I believe that in other respects his record was clear. When presenting his case I had to admit his apparent hopelessness in this one subject; but I must have laid such stress as I could on what he had accomplished...
NameClass Position Age Wt. Ht. School Andres, H. '31 Center 20 185 5.10 Newton High Armstrong, E. '30 Tackle 21 183 5.11 Loomis Barber, H. L. '32 Tackle 19 216 5.11 Dean Booma, H. E. '30 End 21 173 5.10 Clark Burroughs, H. B. '31 Center 21 166 5.10 Manchester High Clark, L. J. '31 Back 20 172 5.9 Newton High Cole, A. M. '30 Tackle 24 201 6.1 Terrill Crehan, P. J. '31 Guard 23 193 5.11 Bridgeton Crosier, G. D. '30 Guard 21 206 5.10 Worcester Ferry, W. H. '32 Center 18 184 5.9 U. of Detroit High...
...Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes, do not add much dignity and importance to the leather-pushing game...
...recipient of this scholarship is selected in the middle of the third year by the Dean of the College and the Director of the Athletic Association, but the gift is not made until his fourth year. It is awarded on the basis of scholastic and athletic ability...