Word: haverford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drinker has been acting Dean of the faculty of the School of Public Health since Dr. Edsall's resignation. He took an S.B. at Haverford College in 1908, being appointed an instructor in physiology at the School of Public Health in 1916. Two years later he was made an assistant professor, a year later an associate professor, and, in 1923, a full professor of physiology. He was appointed Assistant Dean of the School of Public Health, in 1924. With his appointment as Dean comes the post of Research Professor of Clinical Medicine...
Other schools-had the following numbers: St. Paul's, 7; St. Mark's, 6; Brookline High, 5; Catalina Island, 4; Fieldston, 4; Groton, 4; Choate, 3; Cranbrook, 3; Hopkins Grammar, 3; Roxbury Latin, 3; Belmont High, 2; Moses Brown, 2; John Burroughs, 2; Country Day, 2; Haverford, 2; Loomis, 2; Newton High, 2; Noble and Greenough, 2; St. George's, 2; University...
...Pennsylvania and Navy, both undefeated, won the association championship, won the association championship, although Pennsylvania had tied once and Navy twice. This year Penn has kept up her winning record, beating Yale 3-1 and Haverford...
...Haverford like Swarthmore has long emphasized honors work. Under a new system inaugurated this autumn, conferences and tutorial work are to be substituted for lectures, especially in the two upper classes. With the enrolment limited to 300 and an average of only seven students under each professor, Haverford honors will be available to all. The new plan was lavishly saluted during the centenary celebrations last week, notably by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, president of Haverford since 1917, a genial, highbrowed classicist and cricket-player whom the students call "Uncle Billy" and whose precept has been: "Improve the breed of college...
...Haverford detects an improvement in its breed by the fact that for the past four years Haverford has beaten 131 competitors in the annual Intercollegiate Intelligence Tests of the American Council on Education. Last week Dr. Comfort delivered in Haverford's tent an earnest, soothing address of the sort without which no academic convocation is complete. Calling Haverford's new plan not a new goal but a new technique, he said U. S. education needs no revamping: "What the country needs is ... a moral quickening ... a stiffer backbone...