Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attained greatness as Dean, however, in leading the growth and transformation of Harvard Law School in the postwar years. It is important, but not vital, that the School's physical plant greatly expanded during his Deanship. Great schools can thrive for a time in inadequate buildings. It is vitally important, however, that the Griswold years saw the faculty, the library and the curriculum grow to meet the needs of the time. New areas of the law had to be studied and to be taught. Old areas of the law required fresh thinking and new approaches. American lawyers were increasingly involved...
...that he had overstated the problem and allowed that "a degree of companionship is very important in a large impersonal college." Monro also designed Harvard's freshman seminars, served as an effective middle man between students and other top administrators. Modest but outspoken, he upgraded the vaguely defined deanship to make it one of Harvard's most influential offices...
Monro has given 18 years of his life to the College, rising from the News Office to the Deanship. As director of financial aid, before moving to University Hall, he instituted a new system of loans, jobs and scholarships that revolutionized the nature of the entire student body...
...effort in recent fund raising was the Program for Harvard Medicine, which sought $58 million, chiefly to support new professorships and complete the Countway Library. This effort was brought to a successful conclusion during 1964-65, the final year in the long period of George Berry's extraordinarily constructive Deanship...
...annual operating budget of the Graduate School of Public Health has risen from $1.4 million to more than $6 million during the relatively short period of Dr. Snyder's deanship. During this same period more than $8 million has been spent by the School, for new construction and remodeling of its physical plant, and its endowment resources have risen from $6 million to more than $18 million. But the School still has longe-range capital needs estimated at $30 million. A pressing immediate goal has been to raise $7.4 million to add eleven floors to finish one of its major...