Word: deans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...James E. Rhoads, of Philadelphia, was last Saturday elected President of Bryn Mawr College by the trustees, and Martha Carey Thomas, of Baltimore, Dean of the faculty and Professor of English. The institution will be opened to students in the autumn of 1885, and will adopt standards of admission and instruction equal to the highest in existing colleges for women in this country. Dr. Rhoads was named in the will of Dr. Joseph W. Taylor, the founder of Bryn Mawr College, as one of its trustees, and still holds that position. Martha Carey Thomas holds the degree...
...dean of the Princeton faculty is very unpopular...
...circular attacking the faculty of Princeton College in a very satirical and vigorous manner; has been distributed among the students there, and has been the cause of much excitement. A mass meeting of over 500 students was called together and held in a hired hall in town, as the dean refused to allow them the use of any college building, and a set of resolutions was drawn up addressed to the trustees. The second resolution, in regard to the new athletic rules, shows that much the same sort of feeling exists there between the faculty and students as at Harvard...
...dean seems to be the chief point of attack, as he is regarded as the source of all the evil. The circular letter says of him: The students say that matters have reached a crisis and think that publicity is the only means of obtaining relief from their grievances. For this reason they have not only petitioned the trustees, but have set the matter before the general public...
Prof. Longfellow's bust has been placed in Westminster Abby between those of Chaucer and Dryden. The inscription was prepared by Dean Stanley before his death...