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...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...
...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...
...wife arrives at Reno for a divorce generally under instructions from her personal attorney at home who refers her to his "correspondent" in the city. Reno's biggest law firm: (William) Woodburn & (George B.) Thatcher. Residence is immediately established in a housekeeping apartment or at the smart comfortable Riverside Hotel. Excessively exclusive folk go to the TH dude ranch 30 miles away, or to Mounte Crese ranch 18 miles away. Loneliness soon vanishes in the colony's common purpose. Di versions are plentiful. Fashionable gam bling, dancing, drinking are wide-open. Such roadhouses as the Willows...
...University of North Carolina's trustees, last week, took four ballots to elect Frank Porter Graham, faculty member since 1914, to succeed Henry Woodburn Chase, new president of the University of Illinois (TIME, March 3). A famed North Carolina Liberal, history-teaching President Graham was chosen through the influence of younger alumni although he insisted he did not want the office...