Word: pegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George B. Pegram, dean of the graduate faculties, who was named vice president of the university to direct "educational affairs." A physicist's physicist, Dr. Pegram was a key man in the early development of the U.S. atomic energy program, directed Columbia's war research from...
...postwar center of intellectual gravity. His colleague, Dean Robert De Blois Calkins, of Columbia's School of Business, predicted that foreigners will want to study in U.S. universities the business methods emphasized by the U.S. war-production record. More reserved was Columbia's Graduate Dean George Braxton Pegram, who studied at Cambridge and Berlin. He thinks Europe and Russia will still draw foreign students in special fields...