Word: deans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the sports world, Dean Hanford called for course reduction and fewer hour exams, the College held its first transoceanic radio debate with Oxford, and President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Soon to resign, Lowell could look back with pride on his record of educational innovation and reconstruction. Tutorials began to slowly increase contact of faculty member with student; the General Exams emphasized a carefully planned academic program of distribution and concentration; the House system helped to mold the "Old Harvard" into new patterns more suitable for the times; and the extensive building drive provided the room for growth...
...spring of 1933 saw the completion of Memorial Church, and the near-demise of the Lampoon. In a ceremony led by Dean Sperry and Bishop William Lawrence, the Church received its more recently controversial consecration, while the plaque for the three Harvard sons who had fought on the other side was moved about from relative obscurity to prominence and back again throughout the year...
...year saw David Weld hand over the presidency of the CRIMSON to J.J. Thorndike, Jr. Other important class posts were held by R. G. Ames, president of the Student Council; Robert Breckenridge, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club; and Gordon C. Streeter, head of Phillips Brooks House. John H. Dean, who had been president of the Junior Class, was the football captain, and subsequently was elected First Marshal of the class, the Second Marshal being Ames...
Several famed Harvard personalities shared the limelight of '34,s last year. "Copey" moved out of the Yard (for reasons of health, not noise, as originally suspected). The beloved Dean Briggs died toward the end of the year, and President Eliot was eulogized in a Centenary observance in his honor. Guest personalities in Cambridge included Walter Lippmann '10, who delivered the Godkin lectures, and Alistaire Cooke, imported to direct the Hasty Pudding show, entitled "Hades! The Ladies...
Elected were Dean Monro, of the Class of 1934, Henry W. Bragdon '28, history teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy; Theodore Chase '34, Boston lawyer and Chief Marshal for Commencement; Milton E. Lord '19, Director of the Boston Public Library; and Hughes Mearns, '02, poet and author of "Creative Power...