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Stanford's lean, earnest Dean of Education Grayson Neikirk Kefauver was already established at Washington with 1) indefinite leave of absence from the university, 2) the backing of the rich Columbia Foundation of San Francisco, 3) the advice of No. 1 Stanfordian Herbert Hoover, and 4) the conviction that big things can be done in international education. Dean Kefauver is the quarterback of a hard-driving Stanford educational backfield (Paul Hanna, Isaac James Quillen, Paul Leonard) whose energy is well known in professional pedagogical circles and seems bound to register soon on a much wider audience...
...Said he: "After all, since I wrote and sold my books partly because of my capacity as professor here, we feel the University is entitled to the profits." Taking charge of the new building is Dr. Cubberley's own choice as his successor, 38-year-old Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver, who has already made Stanford's School of Education a famed centre of progressive education...