Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago in Memphis, Tenn., a haggard, burning-eyed, 100-lb. clergyman, Dean Israel Harding Noe (pronounced No-ee) of St. Mary's Cathedral (Episcopal), fasted himself into the news (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). Attempting to prove that "the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink," Dean Noe kept it up for 22 days, was then deposed by his bishop for his "vagary" and taken, gravely ill, to a hospital...
...Hanover police department appeared disposed to be lenient in their interpretation of the law. Police Chief Dennis J. Halissey said that as far as he knew "there are no special drinking regulations. I am leaving it to the Dean of the College to enforce student restrictions...
Walt Disney, dean of animated cartoonists and an honorary member of the class of 1928 as of last June, yesterday joined the ranks of those who have expressed concern over the decision of the Fine Arts department not to renew the appointment of Robin Field '30, assistant professor of Fine Arts...
...Dean Hanford has "awaited with interest" the report of the Student Council on the first-ranking bogey-man of University Hall, undergraduate housing. And, with a more vital and personal interest, so have the homeless three hundred, who now lurk in the crepuscular gloom of Little or Dudley and subsist on the weird stews of Harvard Square chefs. The Council has spoken, but like the oracles of the ancient Greeks, it has nothing...
...since been suggested and resuggested. The Council report nevertheless remains an interesting and informative document for a variety of reasons. It stands as the most exhaustive survey of the situation to date; it changes the emphasis placed on the various solutions; and in certain respects it emphatically disagrees with Dean Hanford's conclusions in his latest annual report...