Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present distribution requirements will be a strong dose for those students with definite occupational proclivities. The proposal will be criticized for forcing the postponement of specialization until the final two years, until after the broad "area" background has been nailed in place. This is flying in the face of Dean Hanford's policy of providing tutorial and a certain amount of specialization for some talented men as early as their first year of college. It calls for the reduction or abolition of freedom of electives--the ideal of Lowell and Conant--in the first two years of college. The Council...
...However regrettable it may be, too definite a rule covering all cases of a particular kind can not be followed religiously is making House assignments. While the Council feels very strongly that all efforts should be made to admit Dean's List men to the Houses, it realizes the impossibility of a definite guarantee of such admission...
...editors of the Bulletin feel that last week's action, although commendable, puts too much responsibility on the Dean's Office which will now have to make arbitrary distinctions as to what is legitimate tutoring...
James M. Landis, Dean of the Law School and former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been designated as trial examiner in the coming hearings on deportation charges against Harry Bridges, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced yesterday...
...Union is not alone to be congratulated. With the possible exception of his recent appointment of Professor Ferguson to the key post of Faculty Dean, President Conant has done nothing that will do more to endear him to the doubting liberals in the college world than his gesture of good will to the Union...