Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frankfurter. In deference to the dignity of the Supreme Court a Judiciary subcommittee offered, and Felix Frankfurter accepted, a chance to let him appear not in person but through counsel. Dapper Dean Acheson, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, appeared for him and heard an assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...
...With Dean James M. Land is of the Law School in Washington, other Law faculty members were reluctant to comment on the possible uses of the income of the new Washburn Fund, but possibilities suggested included the maintenance of the library, additional scholarships for needy students, or the endowment of a new Faculty chair...
...Through the National Scholarship plan we are continuing to assist a large number of boys who come from the smaller towns and rural sections," Dean Hanford said concerning the announcement, "and a considerable portion of the recipients belong to families who are unable to furnish anything beyond a small sum toward their college education...
...National Scholarships awarded to freshmen entering last September, Dean Hanford explained, one-half went to boys from communities of less than 50,000, three from towns between 3,000 and 10,000, and five from towns of less than 3,000. Three of the recipients lived on farms. Half the awards went to boys from families with incomes of less than...
...honor student, then the University will have done its part. And when this happens, then the students themselves will see that twenty gruelling hours of copying and time for re-reading could be better and more cheaply spent on the course reading itself. Then, in the words of former Dean Pound on the problem, it will no longer be a question of "the blind leading the blind"; the battered tutoring schools will have quit the ring...