Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his first appointee had displayed a lack of administrative tact, Mr. Conant chose as Plan Chairman a man who had real interest in the program and a willingness to devote his abilities to it. But pressure of duties in his new rank as assistant dean have forced him to resign and the President has failed to name any successor. The possibilities for the position are apparently limited in the presidential mind to the members of the Committee sponsoring the Plan: the professors of American History and Literature. But one of these is following in the wake of Columbus, another...
...word document, drawn up last June by Dean Ferguson, the Administration has defended the discharge of the ten assistant professors as a budgetary necessity. Furthermore, the memorandum contends that the Administration leaned over backward in an attempt to retain as many assistant professors as possible...
Lowell's defense was not as effective on the whole as it was Friday in their heart-breaking defeat by Winthrop, but in the clutches the line, paced by Dean Morse and Mac Thurston and backed up by Line Clark, stopped the slashing Eliot attack cold...
...Bock pointed out last night that the Study is necessarily limited to a small number of the eligible "normal young men" in the Sophomore class. He and other Study officials, working in collaboration with the Dean's office, have already drawn up a tentative list of the men they wish to study...
...Went." The poetical effusions of the late John V. A. Weaver, husband of Actress Peggy Wood, are first-class examples of lowbrowed magazine verse. As such they have the large yet limited historical interest of having been almost entirely written in the no-browed vernacular that H. L. Mencken, dean of U. S. critical horse-doctors, has long plugged as the right speech of real Americans...