Word: dean
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Appointed. Harry A. Bigelow, professor of law; to be Dean of the Law School of the University of Chicago...
...unusual was that it apparently violated an ancient custom that all diplomatic matters be conducted by foreign envoys at the U. S. State Department or the White House, not with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make a popular appeal...
...London the very Rev. William Ralph ("Gloomy Dean") Inge, author of Selections from the German Mystics, Personal Idealism and Mysticism, Types of Christian Saintliness, Speculum Animae, speaking last week to the Sunlight League, took note of Continental nudism and said: "There is nothing objectionable in it, but it is a matter of convention." He recited this limerick: Half an inch, half an inch shorter. The same skirts for mother and for daughter, When the wind blows, everything shows. Both what should and what hadn't oughter...
University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.) Herbert Edwin Hawkes, university dean (Columbia) LL.D. Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner LL.D. Lewis Hill Weed, medical school dean (Johns Hopkins) D.Sc...
Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) Mervin Grant Filler, college dean (Dickinson ) D.Litt...