Word: deans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean William C. DeVane echoes Sewall's feelings about the program. "They've done some surprising things," he says. On the basis of their showing in Scholars of the House, a good number have won graduate scholarships and fellowships. "We like a boy with a creative mind," DeVane emphasizes, "but we do make mistakes." He cites the fact that it is very difficult to judge temperament and determination from interviews and letters of recommendation...
...these meetings, the group "degenerates into a kind of gentleman's club, a mutual admiration society." He says that there is "little intellectual meeting ground between the various academic disciplines," and that the criticisms of the readings are therefore not very helpful. This statement is the direct antithesis of Dean Devane's comment, "I suspect that the criticism from the fellow student is even more worthwhile than that from his elders...
...Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, Richard C. Carroll, however, considers such fun juvenile, and the IFC, always one jump ahead of the administration, is discouraging it. So strong is their self-restraint, that some fraternities are considering shortening pledging and promoting social service work...
...distress which are its characteristics. Not only does it train the Rush Committees for later life, but a good rushee will emerge broad gauge. Approximately 30 percent of each class is given the advantage of this special training. Although 30 percent is a democratic enough figure, the College Dean's office reports that four fifths of this group attended private schools...
Ironically, it is the most repellent qualities of the Clubs that give the system this advantage. Their snobbishness, their secrecy, their uncreativity, their preoccupation with an isolated social world all tend to dissuade most undergraduates from any any wish to join. Dean Bender, in the same breath as he criticizes the Clubs for "narrowness," feverently hopes "that the Clubs never start getting democratic." If the Clubs were to elect people on a basis of creative merit, he points out, then undergraduates might really begin to care about joining. The Clubs would become a generally recognized elite, and the punching season...