Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NOTE: Yesterday's editorial Implied that the Deanship of Harvard's Graduate School of Education had somehow contributed to the low status of the post of Commissioner of Education. This was a typographical mishap; the editorial should have said that Dean Keppel's Harvard post has helped to make his influence felt--an influence we hope the Commissioner's office will not neutralize...
...federal money, freed from provincialisms, and staffed by teachers with palpable incentives to teach; and he has the vigor to persuade other educators of the need for radical reform. One's only fear about the appointment is that the job's wretched history and low status--to which Harvard Deanship itself managed to lend a certain weight--will neutralize his efforts. Secretary Celebrezze, education floor leaders in the Congress, and the President will have to take the new Commissioner seriously, for this alone can compensate for the University's enormous loss...
...reserved for the god-king that Harvard expects its president to be. Bundy was simply the king's first minister-a freewheeling manipulator of some 28 departments, 38 faculty committees and 555 faculty members. The trouble now is that since Bundy left, Pusey has taken on the deanship himself, saying that he will surrender it "some time this side of the indefinite future." In Pusey's definite present, the burden is crushing...
...last man Eliot appointed to the deanship was LeBarron Briggs, one of the most capable and respected men in the Faculty's history. And had Briggs and Eliot left office at the same time, as did President Conant and Dean Paul Buck 42 years later in 1953, the development of the office of Dean of Faculty might have been different. For Briggs could easily have started a tradition of capable and efficient deans...
Nevertheless, both Moore and Murdock, and particularly the latter, performed their duties capably, and under them the deanship gained in influence until under Murdock it became fective administrative unit...