Word: nardin
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Wisconsin's Nardin...
...rightly admired brevity of Tune, for once, might have been profitably stretched a trifle in the characterization in your issue of July 20 of "Frances Louise Nardin, dismissed dean of women at the University of Wisconsin, as "the 53-year-old, unmarried dean.'1 I am sure that "understanding, sympathetic, hard-fighting" are descriptive terms which the great majority of the thousands of women students who have come in contact with Dr. Nardin in her 1,5 years' work at the university would have liked to have seen added, especially because they would have precluded any chance...
...reader I appreciate the news judgment of your magazine in grasping the importance and general interest of the fact that Dean Nardin was notified that her name was not included in the budget for the next fiscal year at the university. Disciplinary power at Wisconsin University now will rest with a committee on which the Dean of Women and the Dean of Men have no vote. Too few realize the enormous task faced by a dean of women in these days, standing as she does in the center of a dramatic clash between the "new liberalism" and standards of conduct...
...Dean Nardin's fight at Wisconsin always has been based on her conviction that faculty believers in "new liberal principles" in student discipline should explain to the parents of their students exactly what they meant. The preposterous stories you mentioned in your interesting article as having been associated recently with Dean Nardin-that she told girls they should not lean over to drink at water fountains: that they should not "arouse" male students by wearing red dresses or clocked stockings or puckering their red lips-were first raked together in a collection of campus legends in an anonymous fictionized...
...Milwaukee Journal, close to the situation at Wisconsin, stated in an editorial of July 14 that in the correspondence between Miss Nardin and President Frank "it must be said in truth that Miss Nardin has the better of the argument. Not on the point of Miss Nardin's administration, for the letters do not disclose, and nothing else has so far disclosed, what were the real criticisms of the dean. But on the question whether there was guidance from the University head as to what the deans should do there seems to be but one conclusion, there...