Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief man in the School organization today is influential Dean Donald K. David, who is simultaneously a director of such enterprises as General Electric, R. H. Macy's, and the Boys' Club of America. Dean David succeeded Donham, who in 1942 resigned his deanship at the advice of his physician. Donham is now a professor of Human Relations at Colgate University...
...this juncture, the Corporation voted to establish a Deanship for the Law School, and Christopher Columbus Langdell, recently appointed Dane Professor of Law, was elected to fill the post...
Ames died in 1910, and Ezra R. Thayer was named to fill the vacant Deanship. In the first year of his administration an important change was made in Law School life...
During his 20-year tenure as dean, Harvard became the nation's leader in training men for teaching and government service. While this program was carving out the success that Dean Pound had worked for, the enrollment doubled, remaining at 1500 from the immediate postwar period throughout his deanship. In 1936 he became a University Professor and added undergraduate courses to his schedule...
Once she got into teaching, and then into the deanship, Virginia kept Barnard-on-the-subway a lot like herself: unfeathered, serious, competent. She was conservative by temperament, but in her commonsensical way of facing each new project with a scalpel eye, she made Barnard modern. She is a devotee of the classics, but she abolished compulsory Latin. Barnard under Dean Gildersleeve let the girls smoke and taught them sex hygiene without raising the hubbub that these topics roused in other colleges. Once, when asked what obstacles she had had to overcome in her career, she answered characteristically: "None whatever...