Word: deans
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...years, one of the more arresting sights of Minneapolis has been burly Professor Athelstan F. (for Frederick) Spilhaus, 47, dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, tossing his huge head at cocktail parties and spouting fantastic scientific ideas faster than water flows over Minnehaha Falls. Last year Spilhaus' friend, William Steven, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, hit on the idea of harnessing this awesome flow by getting the learned professor to do a scientific comic strip. As a result, a Spilhaus-scripted strip, Our New Age, now appears weekly...
...Dean McGeorge Bundy announced the appointment of three social psychologists to the Harvard faculty, last Friday. Elliot Aronson, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford this spring, will be a Lecturer of Social Psychology, Richard D. Mann, Jr., an instructor at University of Michigan, will be Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, and John Trevor Pierce, now an instructor at Harvard, becomes a Lecturer on Social Psychology...
...Monday, Dean Francis Keppel announced the appointment of two Assistant Professors in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Arthur S. Bolster Jr., a teacher of history at Pelham High School, is the author of "Discipline of Advancing Truth: The Life of James Freeman Clarke." Abraham S. Fischler is presently teaching at Columbia University...
...Purposes. Last week George Brain was preparing to move on to one of the biggest public-school jobs in the U.S.; as successor to Dr. John Fischer, new dean of Teachers College, Columbia University, he will be head of Baltimore's schools. Under Fischer, the Baltimore school system has been raised to top level, and the city canvassed the country for the best man for the succession. Brain, youngest superintendent of a major U.S. school system, has come a long way from Ellensburg, Wash., where he attended Central Washington College and later taught after serving in the Marines...
...support at the very root of the schism-the university itself, which for centuries condemned Shiite doctrine as heresy-the rector has ordered his staff to stop favoring Sunnis, start teaching courses in Shiite beliefs. "This will have far-reaching effects in realizing Moslem brotherhood," said Sheik Mohamed Medani, dean of the university's theological faculty. Addressing Shiites over the Nasser radio, he added: "Allah is yours as well as ours. There is no argument between...