Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...setting forth his proposal for new and better graduate living arrangements, Dean Landis is in fact if not in name proposing an extension of the House Plan idea. For Mr. Landis stresses that the principal need of graduate housing is not merely finer buildings, but surroundings whose "atmosphere stimulates the exchange of ideas and experiences" among student residents. This Graduate House Plan suggestion is an interesting and logical one, which grows in importance when coupled with an apparently practical plan for raising the necessary money...
...Dean Landis would combine in the new House or Houses students in the Law School with those of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, on the theory that each group would profit by contact with others in different fields. That is of course the primary justification of the undergraduate House Plan, and would seem to be equally applicable to the graduate scene...
...Landis vision, however, desirable in the absolute, stands or falls on its practicability. Where is the money to come from? The Law School Dean does not say. Some have suggested a possible answer based on the fact that privately-owned boarding houses, where most graduate students now live, are making profits. The University, it is urged, should liquidate enough securities to pay for the erection of graduate Houses. Profits from rentals of rooms in these buildings would be placed into a sinking fund sufficient to repay the capital and interest. The net effect of the proposal is thus that, instead...
That education has widely degenerated into "the mere acquisition of information" is the charge leveled at American colleges by Dean Landis in his most recent annual report. The charge is not new. It was on the theory that students must be "inoculated with the virus of self-perpetuating education"--which, translated, means inspired to go on, informally, and learn on their own initiative--that President Conant conceived of the American Civilization Plan. On another front, the University of Chicago is attacking the problem by exposing susceptible freshmen to the grand sweep of Knowledge--through mammoth survey courses such as Civilization...
...dinner the speakers were Zechaviah Chafee, Jr., Laugdell Professor of Law: George H. Chase '96, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology and Dean of the University: Charles N. Fay '69; and Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory. Learned Hand '93. Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as teastmaster...