Word: degreeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned incongruity among his erudite colleagues is Edward Wilber Berry, degreeless dean of Johns Hopkins University. In 1890 he completed his academic education upon being graduated from the Passaic (N. J.) High School. Office boy, clerk, salesman, he became, by happenstance. President & Treasurer & Manager of the Passaic Daily News. In the evenings and on Sundays he played with his hobby, geology. In 1905 he helped settle a dispute about the classification of some clays near his home, formed a friendship with a Johns Hopkins geology Professor. He did some research for the university-and 24 years later became Dean...
...current issue of The American Magazine, the Degreeless Dean, who has never gone to college, gives some of his ideas about the value of a college education. In part says...
...attack of Edward W. Berry, the "degreeless Dean" of Johns Hopkins, on the American College system, which appears in the current number of the American Magazine, is not a new one. The points that he raises are almost universally recognized as needing adequate reform and have been well threshed over time and again. His chief suggestion based on the time wasted in a four-year curriculum, is that the universities should teach the student only that which interests him and which equips him for his chosen profession; specialization should begin after the second year...