Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cyril Argentine Alington, 59, headmaster of Eton since 1916. Tall, personable, he is an Oxonian, onetime (1908-16) headmaster of Shrewsbury School, chaplain since 1921 to King George V. To carry on at Eton he refused the deanship of Canterbury Cathedral. (But his salary of more than ?5,000 is greater than a dean's living.) His students admire his strong face and square shoulders (he played football at Marlborough). His fine, sonorous voice commands their rapt attention at every Leaving Address. Like most British schoolmen, Head Beak Alington is a versatile but chiefly intramural scholar. England knows well...
...Peabody, famed Colorado Governor during the Cripple Creek gold rush. Enlisting for the War, he became a first lieutenant of artillery. After practicing his profession with John F. Shafroth, onetime Colorado Governor and Senator, and William V. Hodges, one-time G. O. P. treasurer, Mr. Rogers took the deanship of the University of Colorado's Law School. Public-spirited, he helped Colorado taxpayers fight their Moffat Tunnel case, served as local president of the Boy Scouts, headed the State Bar Association. Slight in build, quiet in manner, conservative in dress, he enjoys writing amateur plays for Denver Cactus Club...
...direct this big university business Professor Harry Luman Russell 64, resigned the deanship of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture, post he had filled for 23 years
...siders Bishop Manning theocratic. Said he: "I have no desire to be errand boy for Bishop Manning or any other bishop." Missouri. In the presence of ten bishops William Scarlett, 46, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, last week was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Missouri. Before his deanship at Christ Church he was for eleven years dean of Trinity Ca thedral, Phoenix, Ariz...
...Also from a journalism deanship to a presidency went President Matthew Lyle Spencer of the University of Washington...