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This week, after two years of leave of absence on special tasks, 67-year-old Christian Gauss gave up his deanship to have more time for teaching and literature. His successor: Marine Captain Francis R. B. "Frisco" Godolphin, Princeton '24. Godolphin had left his quiet spot as head of Princeton's Classics Department to spend two years in the Marines, saw action on Saipan, Tinian, and Kwajalein. His job: going well ahead of the fighting lines to direct bombers by radio...
Donham becomes George F. Baker Professor of Administration today. Under his deanship the school grew from a struggling institution crippled by the first World War into a thriving branch of the University playing an all-important part in World...
...Most vibrating springboard in Washington is the SEC chairmanship. From it Joseph P. Kennedy took off to the Maritime Commission and the Court of St. James's; James M. Landis to the deanship of Harvard Law School; William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court; Jerome Frank to the Circuit Court of Appeals...
...such dragon as Dr. Thomas is Katharine McBride. Tall, low-voiced, self-effacing, Miss McBride is a quiet research scholar in neurology. She got three degrees at Bryn Mawr (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), steps up to Bryn Mawr's presidency from the deanship of Radcliffe. But from Bryn Mawr, Dr. Thomas and Dr. Park, Miss McBride acquired a profound respect for scholarship. Said she last week: "One of the things I like best about Bryn Mawr is that they expect scholarly work of the students. . . . [Such] students . . . seem much better equipped . . to live in a world of changes like this...
Lanky, steely Dr. Leonard Carmichael's odd stepping stone to academic promotion is research in sensory psychology and physiology. Only 18 month's ago he left a professorship and the psychology laboratory at Brown University for the deanship of the arts and sciences faculty and a new laboratory, built especially for him, at the University of Rochester. A graduate of Tufts College and a Harvard Ph.D.. Dr. Carmichael had taught also at Princeton, Harvard and Clark University, but won renown for research, not teaching. Last week Researcher Carmichael, only 39, became a college president. He will take...