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...last man Eliot appointed to the deanship was LeBarron Briggs, one of the most capable and respected men in the Faculty's history. And had Briggs and Eliot left office at the same time, as did President Conant and Dean Paul Buck 42 years later in 1953, the development of the office of Dean of Faculty might have been different. For Briggs could easily have started a tradition of capable and efficient deans...
...rather be expelled by him than be praised by anyone else," a nineteenth century undergraduate once commented. His testament, sincere if overstated, was a tribute to the greatness of the late LeBarron Russell Briggs '75, confidant of "Copey" and "Kitty" in the days of "too much teaching and too little studying" in Harvard College...
...Committee believe that the Society would be fortunate if it could secure any members of its first Board of Stockholders: Major Henry L. Higginson, Fellow of Harvard College; Professor LeBarron R. Briggs, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Professor Samuel Williston, of the Law Faculty: Professor Harold C. Ernst, of the Medical Faculty: Professor Wallace C. Sabine, of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Respectfully submitted. JAMES BARR AMES. EDWIN H. HALL. BYRON S. HURLBUT. WILLIAM G. LEE. RICHARD DERBY. JAMES A. BURGESS. ROBERT W. LEATHERBEE...
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