Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change in the School since Keppel took over is not so much a change in policy as it is a change in staff and emphasis. While the student body has not been appreciably enlarged, there has been a big expansion in research and field projects...
Assistant Dean of Freshmen from 1939 to 1941, and Assistant to Provost Buck for two years after the war, Keppel has renovated the Graduate School of Education and has had tremendous influence in drawing up the plans for the "truce among educators...
...Civil War is a waste of time and talent," Keppel commented, "and we can't afford the fight any more. We are doing our best in trying to teach these people in the best...
Explaining the reasons for expansion, Keppel stated in 1948 that the "study of fundamental problems of education in our society would benefit from the addition of greater contributions from the systems of analysis and the findings of anthropology, clinical and social psychology, economics, intellectual and social history, political science, philosophy, and sociology . . . The focus of the School's interest must remain steadily upon the educational system of our society...
...School's new expansion program has gotten off to a good start by gifts and grants totaling over one million dollars. This sum has come primarily from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Keppel decided early in the planning that the School should try to carry out the new program over at least a six-year period, and that new support should simultaneously be sought to continue the activities after that time. Approximately four million dollars, it was estimated, would be needed to provide for new professorships and more scholarships, while estimates...