Word: stade
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Over 1200 freshmen got their first look at some of the men who administer Harvard Wednesday morning. Dean Whitlock, Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, former dean of Admissions and presently vice president for Alumni Affairs, and F. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, spoke at what was billed as a "required meeting" in Sanders Theatre...
When the young von Stade arrived at Harvard, he brought two polo ponies with him. Needing more horses for a match, von Stade joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and trained some of the field artillery horses for polo. "That was my drill," he says...
...Stade was thrown out of ROTC when he took the first term of his senior year off to tour South America with an international polo team, which, he recalls, "turned out to be pretty much of a flop." Returning to Harvard to graduate, he was offered a job as a master at St. Paul's. He accepted the job, and then two years later, took another offer to come to Harvard...
...judging from both the amount of time he has spent here and his pronouncements, von Stade likes Harvard the way it is. "I wouldn't like to see the University reorient itself in any significant way," he says. "I wouldn't like to see it turn out a lot of Democrats or a lot of Republicans--certainly...
Asked why he thought students wanted the process of change to go faster, von Stade said that he himself was equally impatient in his youth. "Students are taught to have ideas," he said. "But they have to learn how to feel about them...