Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pathologists Emory Dean Warner, Kenneth Merle Brinkhous, Harry Pratt Smith...
...Large numbers of teachers who are not competent professional students of educational problems constitute a menace to the national well-being of a democracy," Henry W. Holmes, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, stated yesterday. He proposed professional training of aspirants to teaching posts as a solution to the danger...
Designed, in the words of Dean John H. Williams, head of the school, as a "means to bring the University and the Public Service nearer together," the new center will fill a dual function as a training field for graduate students in the social sciences and as a research institution for men already doing government administrative work...
Emphasizing in his report the important role of the consultants who will be drawn from public service for work in the new school, Dean Williams said, "It is the consultantship program which most clearly differentiates the work of the School from the more usual sort of instruction in the social sciences...
...this proposed reform blesses more than the C man; it is a true antitoxin for overspecialization, it resurrects the ideal of "knowing a little about a lot," and above all stresses good teaching. When Dean Hanford recalls great names like Bliss Perry, Norton, and Palmer, he unintentionally brings to mind the scarcity of such men in present-day Harvard. With teachers who can stimulate from the platform as well as in the study the 'University will more closely approximate a broad, liberal education than by any other means...