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...affairs scholastic, Acting President Duffield proposes to maintain a judicial rather than executive attitude. He will not go popping his head into classrooms or make long speeches at faculty meetings. The academic side of Princeton will remain in the capable hands of Dean of the Faculty Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, a quiet, smiling little mathematician, baseball addict, Princeton teacher for 32 years, whose memory is so prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose two major courses...
...Republican gubernatorial possibility. Because of his many other activities (Presbyterian councils also keep him busy) he will not be a full-time president of Princeton. When he is away the administration of the university will be in the hands of Dean of the Faculty Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, who has been at Princeton for 32 years and was largely instrumental in formulating the upperclass ("four-course") plan of study inaugurated...
Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, dean of the faculty of Princeton University . . . Sc.D...
Princeton, N. J., March 9, 1927,--The recently-instituted Harvard plan of giving students respites from class work before mid-year and final examinations has attracted the interest of Professor Eisenhart. Faculty Dean of Princeton University...
...will be particularly interesting," Professor Eisenhart said, "to watch the working of the Harvard plan to see how great a percentage of the students will play the game and permit the scheme to be worked out as it should be. If it succeeds in making the undergraduates learn how to study problems out for themselves, it will be excellent. If they merely evade it, however, by letting their tutors do their thinking for them, while they prepare for the examination during these recesses, the object of the plan will be defeated...