Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean Russell is a candidate for president of Columbia when 76-year-old Nicholas Murray Butler retires. Irked by businessmen's reference to his college as "The Big Red University," he last year retired liberal, 65-year-old Professor William Heard Kilpatrick. Since then Teachers College leftists, notably Professors George Sylvester Counts and Jesse H. Newlon, have held their tongues...
Last fortnight Dean Russell took a step that shocked education's liberals even more than his retirement of Professor Kilpatrick. He announced that New College would be closed at the end of the year...
...eyes of libertarians, who sniffed at the idea that T. C. (current budget: $3,865,000) could not afford this experiment, New College was to be liquidated for too keen an interest in contemporary social problems. Teachers and students also charged that Dean Russell had consulted only his trustees and administrative officers, undemocratically ignored the faculty...
...drop "one of the most important experiments . . . in teachers' education." Cried New College's faculty: "The passing of New College will destroy the position of Teachers College as a leader. . . ." Snapped Dean Russell: "Any talk about ulterior motives is bunk...
...Harvard Council of Government Concentrators has elected the following officers to the Executive Committee: Lawrence I. Radway '40, president, Bainbridge Crist '39, vice-president, Roger L. Werner '40, secretary, and Robert Robbins '40. Tonight the Council co-sponsors with the Student Union the lecture by Dean Landis on "The Growth of the Administrative Process" in Emerson D. at 8 o'clock...