Word: dean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the auspices of the Bussey Institution, Professor Nikolsi A. Borodin, formerly Dean of the Department of Fish Culture and Fisheries, Petrograd Agricultural College, begins a series of lectures on "Biology as Applied to Fisheries and Fish Culture" today at 4 o'clock, in Room 402 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology on Oxford Street...
...blaming readmitted and dropped Freshmen for a large part of increased unsatisfactory Freshman records, Dean Hanford's recent report is mistaking cause in what is fundamentally an effect of more basic conditions. The question inevitably arises as to whence comes this increasing number of dropped and readmitted Freshmen responsible for the yearly increment of poor students. In order to have more and more of these persons unfitted for promotion to Sophomore standing one must be continually supplied at the beginning of Freshman year with more and more incapables. To say that the low standing of any given class...
With the proper understanding of the inherently smoke-screen quality of the first named reason for the steady growth of "unsatisfactories" in Dean Hanford's report, the necessity for close attention to the second and third reasons comes squarely into its own. No doubt more stringency in the treatment of men who have once failed of promotion would result in an immediate improvement in the appearance of Freshman standing, but by so doing the symptoms of disease are removed. It is the cause of the symptoms that requires earnest searching and thoughtful treatment...
Since 1923, Dean Briggs has lived in retirement at his Cambridge home...
Tentative plans for further entertainment include speeches by President Lowell and Lawrence Coolidge '27, dean of the Sophomore Class. They have not, however, as yet definitely accepted the invitation of the committee to speak before the gathering...