Word: deans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this evil to be remedied? If a man has the face to lie to the Dean about his circumstances, I see no way of action but that the Dean take him to task. That is to say, I think that the college authorities should institute a committee on scholarships, which should judge whether a man's evident style of living entitles him to pecuniary aid or not; such a committee, I admit, would have odious duties, but a crying evil would be remedied to a great extent, at least...
...academic department of the college; in the selection of the 10 students, to each of whom one of said shares of $300 is to be paid, preference is to be given to those who by industry, good conduct and zealous effort shall be deemed by the president and dean of this college to be meritorious students and entitled to encouragement and support; it being however, my wish that said money should not be awarded to any student solely by reference to his rank or standing as a scholar, but that regard should also be had to earnest and honest endeavor...
...students of the college of liberal arts, Boston University, held their first social of the current year at Jacob Sleeper Hall last evening. A large number of the students were present and the faculty was represented by Dean Huntington and Profs. Browne, Buck, Dorchester, Curry and Lindsay. The entertainment consisted of songs from Tennyson by Mr. L. B. Greenwood and Miss Conant, and a representation of Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women," the parts being taken by Misses Teele, Root, Hoag, Gooding, Shinn, Clarke, Latham, Small and Thomas; Mr. Magee, '88, taking the part of the dreamer. After the entertainment...
...which we review, offer food for thought, especially to those who are chronically on the "ragged edge" of admonition or probation. Many of the "legal quibbles" of the old system are done away with and good standing depends on the favorable opinion of the instructors, The duties of the Dean once those of judge have been reduced simply to those of executioner. No more of the famous "petitions" for what are politely called "occasional brief indispositions," by the new regulations will be received. The necessity for many of them has disappeared, however, with the advent of voluntary chapel, which...
...first regulation on the list we find changed. Absences are no longer returned to the Dean, but to the secretary, who enters them on each student's record. Petitions to the faculty may now be handed in up to 10 o'clock on the day of the faculty meeting. The new Rule (5) with regard to the time of changing electives, limiting such changes to Nov. 1 and March 1, are well known already. Rule 7 and 8 is new. Instructors are to report to the Dean from time to time the names of students who have failed to satisfy...