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...succession, she was secretary to five Deans of Students: Yeomans, Chester N. Greenough, A. Chester Hanford, Wilbur J. Bender '27, and Delmar Leighton...
Back in the days when a summons to 4 University Hall usually meant disciplinary action, Harvard College developed a tradition for great and powerful Deans. Perhaps the greatest and most powerful-and the kindest-was the now legendary Dean Briggs. It was in his tradition that Chester N. Greenough ruled. And it was in Greenough's footsteps that a quiet, pipe smoking assistant professor of Government hesitatingly assumed the Deanship...
After twenty years-six longer than anyone else-A. Chester Hanford resigned as dean of the College. Not only had he carried on the tradition of Briggs and Greenough, but as Provost Buck said, he had "added new lustre to it." Having give twenty years of his life to the job, he now wanted a chance to do more research, writing, and teaching in his first love: municipal and state government...
...original House Plan announcement was followed by subsequent ones during the fall of 1928, proclaiming enlargement of the $3,000,000 gift, approval of the plan by the faculty, and appointment of Messrs. Greenough and Coolidge as the first masters. When a Student Council committee headed by James DeNormandie and Arthur E. French came forward with a plan that would form a New Yard for the Houses on the land surrounded by Boylston, Mt. Auburn, and DeWolfe Sts., the Lampoon rebelled...
...Chester Greenough, former Dean of Students, and Coolidge, the first two Masters, were instructed to pick out the boys they desired and try to persuade them to join their Houses. Although Coolidge together with Merriman of Eliot was to enjoy the position of heading one of the two most popular houses in Cambridge through most of the 1930's, Dunster under Greenough got off to the better start. Apparently Greenough promised all-American quarterback Barry Wood an entire entry for himself and his friends if he would choose Dunster. Master Coolidge, as head of the Watch and Ward Society, simultaneously...