Word: mcconn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What does a college president do all day long? Most undergraduates do not know. To them their President is a vague figure who occasionally descends from his shadowy musnud to preside over chapel ceremonies. To the cinema-going layman he is a capped-&-gowned comedian. But Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University, in the current North American Review, drew a startlingly different picture, showing the college president as a harrowed executive plying "a dangerous trade," holding down "a man-killing...
Sample presidential day according to Dean McConn...
Further bewailing the lot of the college president, Dean McConn said that all of his assistants are "his own creatures, his own appointees . . . his yes-men, as are likewise the professors." And Dean McConn deduced that the strenuous life of the college president accounts for the fact that "within the preceding nine months [November report] 55 colleges and universities made changes in their highest executive office. . . . Since there are only about 750 colleges in the country, these changes represent a turnover of 7.3% in nine months. Surely this is an alarming rate of academic mortality...