Word: dean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, executive vice president of Victor Talking Machine Co.; to go camera-hunting in Africa.* Resigned. The Very Rev. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, "to devote himself to preaching and literary work" and also because of much-bruited differences of opinion between himself and the Cathedral's Bishop William Thomas Manning (TIME...
...hundred and sixty five courses by 108 instructors are to be offered by the Harvard Summer School of 1929, it was announced yesterday by P. P. Chase '00, dean of the Harvard Summer School, and University Marshal. The courses, which will begin on July 8 and last through August 17, are open to both men and women without formal application, and can be applied for credit at the University of the student...
...present supporters. The scheme of arbitrary assignment to Houses in accordance with the idea of a cross-section composition for each calls forth the following remarks from a proselyting member of Unit C: "When your application blanks come you must on no account mention Unit C." "Why?" "Because the dean will think you want to join the units you list because you have friends there, or because you hear the tutors are good, or because you think the fellows will be congenial, or for some other low and detestable reason...
...Period work yet? No. Me neither. It's a laugh. I say It's a laugh. I mean, the Reading Period. They took up the extra chairs today. yeh, the extra chairs. They took 'em up today. That's a fast one. Need them for the line outside the Dean's office...
...attention to him, Joe. He's got a right to keep on sitting there if he wants to. This is a free country. Don't give him any time at all, Joe. Ignore him. What were you saying? Oh, yeh, the dean. Well he passed me some remark about why don't I live at college. In the Yard he meant or any ways in Cambridge. "Why not?" I says, stalling. Always stall, Joe, when you get into a jam with a dean. He thought I was trying to get control of my emotions. Losing my crack at college life...