Word: dean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recommendation of Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University to partition the student bodies of the American universities into the two divisions of kindergartens and colleges, seems to be an efficient means of separating the fiddling grasshoppers from the industrious ants. The Lehigh Dean would give the gentlemen with the social and activity bent a large playground in the country where they get plenty of fresh air and be able to satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half...
...chief objections to the application of this theory are two. One is that it violates the purpose of the university to educate as many people as it is possible without making the standards ridiculously low. By the theory of Dean McConn, a few would acquire a great amount of erudition, but the vast majority would get only a superficial knowledge, too scant to be of any value whatsoever. Another apparent fault is the fact that the one half of one percent of super-students would be entirely excluded from contact with actual experience and the other people of lesser intelligence...
...Dean Holmes is to address the National Association of College Teachers of Education. He will also speak at the annual Harvard dinner which will take place at the Hotel Cleveland on Wednesday, February...
Since his graduation from Harvard in 1903 Dean Holmes has been engaged in work in education at Harvard. A celebration in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his work in education was recently held at the home of C. S. Thomas in Newton. Twenty-three members of the staff of the Graduate School of Education attended. The dinner was followed by a social hour in which Dean Holmes read a paper on the School of Education after which he was presented an engraved watch by members of the staff...
...Dean Holmes is co-author of "Composition and Rhetoric" and "Teaching of Economics in Harvard University". Among his other works are numerous bulls and articles on education and two essays on education in the Harvard Classics...