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Urging in the current "American Mercury" that college studies be applied more to the unpleasant realities, Harry Woodburn Chase suggests that they be "devoted to really learning something about the world," a world which Mr. Chase sees in terms of the problems of contemporary life. To him such subjects as economics and biology are the cream of the curriculum. But while man's income and digestion are of major importance, the tradition of higher education has been to concentrate upon celebration...
Other kudos of the fortnight: Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland) President Arthur Cutts Willard of University of Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . D.E. Columbia University (New York) Professor Emeritus Ernest William Brown of Yale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC. D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC.D. Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. President Harold Willis Dods of Princeton . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Surrogate James Aloysius Foley of New York Country . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Economist Calvin Bryce Hoover of Duke University . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. British Economist John Maynard Keynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Russell Henry Stafford of Boston's Old South Church . . . . . . . . . . S.T.D Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) U.S. Commissioner...
...this appeared last July in School & Society, written by Professor Walter Woodburn Hyde of the University of Pennsylvania, who observed that "such a history would be comparatively worthless outside of Turkey." Professor Hyde acknowledged he was indebted to History Professor Edgar Jacob Fisher, dean of Robert College in Constantinople, for translation. Last week, Dean Fisher lost...
...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...
...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...