Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early July, Glimp announced that he was resigning from the deanship he had held for two years in order to become executive director of the Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund. At the time, he said, "This just looked like too exciting a thing not to do even though I had mixed feelings about leaving Harvard now or at any time." In recent years, the $70 million fund, which is one of the nation's two largest community foundations, has concentrated on supporting projects to attack urban problems-a trend Glimp said he plans to continue...
...preceding paragraph expresses no hurt feelings or injured vanity (perhaps a securely vain man would survive these times better than some of the rest of us appear to be doing); but it is a considered institutional, not just a personal, judgment about the deanship as it now stands...
During the 21 years of Griswold's Deanship, the Law School was able to do this. The Faculty has expanded sharply, and is still the nation's best, despite frequent foraging expeditions from Washington. And most Faculty members agree with their colleague, Clark Byse, who says, "I can't imagine a brighter, more enthusiastic bunch of students anywhere...
...large part, the Law School's greatness today is the result of expansion and innovation under Griswold. The physical plant and library facilities north of Kirkland St. have mushroomed. More important, the Griswold Deanship witnessed a series of steps to transform the Law School curriculum into a more flexible and more sensitive instrument to deal with living issues. Study centers in urban and international law have been set up, and Griswold has recruited some of the nation's leading Lawyers in those fields. Just as important from the students' point of view, the School will drop second year requirements, starting...
...even a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Griswold's friends and admirers will thus understand his decision to accept this exciting and significant work, however much they may regret his departure. And they will remember that Erwin Griswold leaves the Harvard Law School the heritage of a great deanship...