Word: deans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members of the industrial-military complex. And since erratas reflects ignorance of Latin, Jonathan Swift was the Dean of ignoramuses. How good that we now have concerned and learned experts to guard the standards of our language and save it from such corrupters...
...15th president to Andrew Cordier, who has been acting in that capacity for the past year. Cordier stepped loyally into the breach-but let the university know of his own desires. At 68, the onetime diplomat and former U.N. undersecretary hopes to return to his old post as dean of the School of International Affairs. He agreed to the presidency with the proviso: "For one year or until a new president is in a position to assume the duties of office...
...least for the coming year, is Acting President Andrew Cordier, 68. Some people at Columbia feel that Cordier, by virtue of his adroit interregnum administration, deserves to be made the new president. But Cordier insists that he wants to return as soon as possible to his regular post as dean of the School of International Affairs. Columbia's search continues...
...exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course needn't be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your blue-book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; Don't just say "Medieval cathedrals," name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood...
...graduates within the first three to five years of employment. Graduates of 15 years ago often regarded a job, like a marriage, as being for life; today's young men are more inclined to equate it with an affair-good until something more fetching comes along. George Robbins, dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration, ascribes the job turnover to an increase in specialization, which tends to put loyalty to a profession above loyalty to a company. Underlying everything is the security of a full-employment economy. The young executive knows that if he fumbles...