Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishment of the office of Director of Athletics, carrying with it the dignity of membership to the Faculty, is a progressive step which should prove epochal. Its significance can be limited only by the calibre of the man appointed to the position. The Corporation has formally recognized athletics to be an integral part of education. Hitherto athletics and academic pursuits have existed side by side as things apart, separate, distinct, rather than as two phases of the same thing,--the development of the complete man. With the incorporation of the one in the other, the University gives noteworthy recognition...
...abstract, even more important is the selection of the man to hold the position. The appointment of a man of the type of William J. Bingham would bring to the office at the outset all the dignity and prestige that should go with its inherent importance. The new Director of Athletics will not be a glorified coach or trainer; he will not be a mere maker of schedules or a business executive. He will be a member of the Faculty with all the prestige of a professor of Greek or History; and rightly so, for his is a province...
...confront the Athletic Association. It will also establish a closer relation between the faculty and the Athletic Committee. Under the present system the faculty members of the Athletic Committee are able to devote only a small portion of their time to athletic questions. The primary work of the new director will be the administration of athletic affairs...
...League to Enforce Peace, of which Mr. Filene has been actively connected with since 1915, has been one of the many organizations through which he has directed his efforts toward world peace. During the war he was a director of the United States Chamber of Commerce and also chairman of the War Shipping Commission...
Critics Assailed. "If you can imagine a world devoid of newspapers, imagine how much misrepresentation, sensation and scandal there would be in it. The newspaper acts as a limit upon private scandalmongers simply by telling the truth about events likely to provoke misresentation"-J. W. Cunliffe, Director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism...