Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present the House Masters are abusing their rights of selection by placing undue emphasis upon the cross-section principle, occasionally for the purposes of discrimination. When several Freshmen conditionally gain admittance to Houses, while two of the most prominent men in the class and a large number of Dean's List students are refused entrance, it is time to take steps to prevent the present perversion of the system. One way of doing this is to institute a group of set criteria which would circumscribe the freedom of action of the Masters. The difficulties inherent in such a plan...
...Freshman committee, which was voluntarily banded together from Yardlings who received House acceptances, consulted Dean Leighton yesterday afternoon. The Freshman Dean will turn over the recommendations to the Central Committee...
...first official statement that the University is considering action, Dean Hanford stated that "the matter is being given careful consideration by the officers of the University, by the Administrative Board of the college, and by various members of the Faculty who are most directly concerned with the problem...
...Dean Hanford returned last Saturday from his three weeks trip in the West, during which time be visited Harvard Clubs and schools along the Pacific. In his absence Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, attacked the tutoring schools, but not as the representative of the College administrative board...
...yesterday's statement, Dean Hanford said he shared Dean Leighton's opinions expressed in the CRIMSON of April 27. The dean continued, "I am in thorough agreement with the general opinion expressed in the editorials that outside tutoring at Har- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves