Word: woodburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of the election of Harry Woodburn Chase to the presidency of the University of North Carolina (TIME, Feb. 6) has caused much comment among the members of the "Old Soldiers' Home" (faculty bachelor eating club...
...resourceful pedagog gets about a good bit. That thought might have occurred, 14 years ago, to a tall, youngish psychology professor whose grey eyes looked out from droopy eyelids at the leisurely charm of the University of North Carolina. Harry Woodburn Chase had been born in 1883 into a family in Groveland, Mass, which was said to have moved only five miles in 300 years. At Dartmouth he had taken his A.B.; at Clark University in Worcester (Mass.) his doctorate. Married to a Midwesterner, he went to North Carolina's Chapel Hill...
...story goes, the trustees tired of trying to agree on a new president and turned the matter over to the faculty for a vote. Chief candidates were a Southerner and a Northerner. The Damyankee Club tactfully cast 30 votes for the Southerner. The other 170 professors voted for Harry Woodburn Chase...
...third time in his 20-odd busy years of pedagogy, Harry Woodburn Chase-now white-haired though only 49 -made ready to move last week. He had accepted the chancellorship (presidency) of sprawling, polyglot New York University, to succeed Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown who is retiring at 71. Dr. Chase once said that his faith was in the State universities. N. Y. U. is privately endowed, receiving nothing from city or State. But it is large-the nation's largest, with 27,905 degree candidates-and its widespread activities are such as to keep Dr. Chase busy and happy...
...became in 1909 the first U.S. dean of men: chastener of delinquents, soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished him to break in his successor, Fred H. Turner. This April he announced his retirement at a meeting of U.S. deans of men in Gatlinsburg, Tenn. Last week he closed up his desk and said: "I'm not tired...