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When George F. Plimpton '14, the newly created Associate Dean in charge of Alumni Placement and Student Employment, moves into University Hall at the end of the month, a now and significant chapter in Harvard administration history will open...
...Plimpton is to be the coordinator of all problems relating to undergraduate and graduate employment, problems which so far have been handled by many separate branches of the University...
...Advisory & Planning Council of 50 tycoons came in handy when the President used its call on him as evidence that the critical Chamber of Commerce did not represent the reaction of business to the New Deal, but last week the 50 tycoons had to be placated. Council Chairman Henry Plimpton Kendall called at the White House to explain that his fellow tycoons felt that: 1) their advice did not appear to be very much needed and they feared they were being used as political window-dressing; 2) by contrasting their support with the Chamber of Commerce's criticism...
...even Mr Plimpton knows how much money he has collected. But when he became treasurer of 4-year-old Barnard in 1093 the college books showed liabilities of $30,000, assets of two bonds valued at $1,000 each. Now Treasurer Plimpton is 79 and Barnard, at 45, has property and endowment totalling $9,000,000 spends one-tenth that amount every year. Once while he was traveling on the Yukon River with the late great Jacob Schiff, that immigrant financier mentioned proudly that he would soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of his arrival in the U. S with only...
Last week Barnard turned a celebration of its 45th anniversary into a tribute to Treasurer Plimpton. Gathered at Sherry's Restaurant in Manhattan was many a friend of Barnard who had gladly furnished Mr Plimpton with money to help run the college...