Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school has long been scattered about the Harvard campus. It lingered in a state so lowly, compared with such Harvard professional schools as law and medicine, that President James B. Conant considered scrapping it in the mid-'30s. He kept it, however, and in 1948 appointed Francis Keppel, then 32 (now Assistant Secretary...
...Keppel doubled the size of the school's faculty, pioneered in bringing outside professors into the education faculty to break the hold of the educationists. He organized a cooperative program with 30 of the top liberal-arts colleges in the U.S. to funnel some of their most talented graduates into professional education via Harvard's graduate school. After Keppel moved on in 1962 to become U.S. Commissioner of Education, another brilliant young innovator, Theodore Sizer, now 33, succeeded him as dean, and continued the push toward making education a major concern of all of Harvard's academic...
...Gardner, the commissioner is responsible for an ever expanding variety of federal programs, ranging from school integration to college scholarships to developing new teaching techniques. Last week President Johnson named to the job Harold Howe II, 47, a proven administrator in both public and private education, to succeed Francis Keppel (TIME cover...
...Keppel, he will spend full time on a second job created for him last September: Assistant Secretary of HEW. As commissioner, he had attempted to withhold some $30 million worth of federal aid to Chicago schools because of racial segregation, and had brashly told the Sigma Chi fraternity that unless it integrated, the colleges where it has chapters would lose federal aid. He will now give primary attention to the problem of trying to coordinate the conflicting, overlapping educational activities of 43 federal agencies...
...student of secondary education, I feel that your Keppel cover story [Oct. 15] was one of the best I have seen in TIME. From it, laymen and educators can obtain a résumé of federal action on schools...