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...Dean Hanford has only one son at home, thus leaving time for his 3700 children at Harvard. He was born in 1891 in Makanda, Illinois, graduated in 1912 from the University of Illinois, where he taught Political Science for the following two years. He came to Harvard in 1915 as an instructor in Government, is now a professor. In 1927 he succeeded Chester Noyes Greenough as Dean of Harvard College, and continues to maintain a quiet and gracious dignity in University Hall...
...academic year draws to a close, one of the most important bits of unfinished business, from the undergraduate point of view, is the matter of House admissions. The well-justified roar of protest against a condition which makes necessary more than three hundred disappointed applicants, has elicited from Dean Hanford a promise that future Freshman classes will be reduced; but the temporary expedient of associate House memberships was discarded, and for the next few years the problem, apparently, will remain unsolved...
...preliminary report to the Freshmen Committee on Houses Dean Hanford last week concluded in regard to the plan for associate memberships in the Houses that "the disadvantages of the proposal . . . seem to outweigh the advantages of the proposal when the best interests of the House plan are given proper consideration...
...hopeful fact brought out last week at a conference between Dean Hanford, Dean Leighton and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., Homer D. Peabody, Jr., and Spencer Klaw of the Freshman Committee was that College enrollment will definitely be cut down from the present figure of 3700 to 3500 in the next few years, which will considerably scale down the number of would-be House members living outside...
...Houses should be reduced to a more normal figure next year, it seems unwise to adopt any policy at this time which might lessen the general effectiveness of the Houses, such as the provision for associate members or the guarantee of admission to all Juniors and Seniors," Dean Hanford said in his report...