Word: dex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reed's students first met their new president when he picked himself up from the mud at the losing end of the freshman-sophomore tug of war (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). Promptly christened "Prex Dex," long-faced Dr. Keezer lived up to his unorthodox introduction. When a visiting Japanese professor left his boots outside his door in Keezer's house, "Prex Dex" blacked them himself. An ardent fisherman, he gathered Reed students in his basement for classes in fly-tying. He also brought intellectuals of all political shades to talk to the students, advertised the college so skillfully...