Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...session will be opened with the annual Convocation, tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. William Y. Elliott, Director of the Summer School, will preside, and the speaekrs will be Francis Keppel, Dean of the Faculty of Education, and John U. Monro, Dean of Harvard College...
Over $1 million of the $2.8 million given to the Graduate School of Education last week by the Ford Foundation will support experimental education projects in Concord, Lexington, and Newton. The Foundation's support of the experiments is "the culmination of seven years' work," Francis G. Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, stated...
...Keppel specifically requested an extended appropriation because of the difficulty of carrying out experiments in education which have backing for only one year. He also pointed out, however, that when new funds have to be solicited each year, educators are tempted to favor experiments which bring fast results and will encourage immediate support rather than slower ones which might be more profitable in the long...
...Concord, Lexington, and Newton projects which this Ford grant subsidizes will have both breadth and depth, Keppel said...
Labelling the Ford grant "a dramatic action," Francis Keppel, Dean of the School of Education said that the grant's size would make possible long-range planning. He stressed the need for "more imagination in the recruitment, training and use of the ablest persons for work in the schools...