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...University faculty members have been made available for refugees handled by the Boston Transcript, though only a handful of these children are now living in Cambridge, with a few more arriving every day or so. Many of the children are going to private schools in Greater Boston such as Dexter and Buckingham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY GROUP FINDS HOMES FOR 50 BRITISH CHILDREN | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...William T. Manning and other moralists last spring by appointing Bertrand Russell a C. C. N. Y. professor.*Last week it again was rash. It prepared to appoint as president of C. C. N. Y., one of the nation's biggest colleges (25,810 students, day and evening), Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of small (550 students), progressive Reed College, Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Portland to Manhattan? | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...Dexter Keezer quit college (Amherst) to be a machine-gunner in World War I. Later he got his Amherst A. B. and a Ph.D. in economics from the Brookings Institution, taught three years at Cornell, Colorado, North Carolina, quit teaching to be Washington correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and later an editor of the Baltimore Sun. He went to Washington as executive director of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, landed in Portland as Reed's president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Portland to Manhattan? | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Last week a special C. C. N. Y. committee, having considered 60 candidates in its search for a president was ready to report. Its unanimous choice: Dexter Keezer. The Board of Higher Education was prepared for conservative opposition to Dr. Keezer. To its surprise, the storm came from another quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Portland to Manhattan? | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Winding up a varied year's program of lectures, the American Civilization Plan is sponsoring a talk by Dexter Perkins '09 on "American Foreign Policy and the Two World Wars" in Eliot House at 8 o'clock tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perkins Speaks Tonight | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

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