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...Assistant Deans are consulting experts on the regulations of the College. Their chief function is the administering of minor discipline warning men who are taking too many cuts, neglecting their work, or are otherwise likely to come into conflict with official regulations. As a part of this duty the Assistant Deans deal with all cases of men on probation. If a man has such grades that he would ordinarily be put on probation, the Dean in charge of his class looks over his record and reports to the Administrative Board any mitigating circumstances which might justify a suspension...
...second University officer is the Regent, whose primary function is to look after undergraduate relations and affairs. For this purpose he appoints the proctors for the various dormitories and is head of the Parietal Board which administers the rules governing life in the dormitories. Infractions of these rules are treated by him before being sent to the Dean's office. As a part of his duties the Regent has general supervision over all undergraduate activities except those of a purely athletic nature which are under the control of the Athletic Committee of which Dean Briggs is chairman...
Cooperating with the President in his work is the general supervisory organization known as the Board of Overseers. This board consists of the President and Treasurer of the University together with thirty other persons elected by general vote of all the graduates. Its main function consists in controlling the general policy of the University and supervising the different departments by means of delegated committees. All appointments of officers and instructors must be ratified by the Board of Overseers before they become official...
When the House was dedicated in 1900, three words were selected to denote its functions: Piety, Charity, Hospitality. I can express it in no better way. All three of these attributes are found in the life of a well-rounded man. It is the function of Brooks House to be a medium for the voluntary expression of these ideals on the part of men in the University...
...important function which the University Squash Courts in Randelph Gymnasium are intended to fulfill is, under the present system--or lack of it--entirely unfulfilled. That function is to offer to students who have but little time to spare from their studies an opportunity to get a certain necessary amount of regular exercise; and the reason they fail to do this is that the usual system of signing up for courts has been neglected. There is no patent reason for such neglect; and there is a patent reason why the sign-up system should be put in force...