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Curricula now in charge of 72 Departments will be divided among twelve groups-the College, the four Divisions, the Professional Schools. Each & every College faculty member will be also a member of a Division, so that correlation between departments (i. e., a Psychology professor and an Economics professor may work together profitably whereas they rarely did before) may be furthered. To twelve deans will go all budgets: simpler will it be to handle twelve divisional budgets than the former 72 departmental budgets...
Deans. Although many details remained to be worked out-athletic eligibility to meet Big Ten Conference requirements, for example-already announced last week were the Deans for the new Plan: Professor Chauncey S. Boucher, dean of the College; Professor Gordon Jennings Laing, dean of Humanities Division; Professor Henry Gordon Gale, dean of Physical Sciences Division; Dr. Richard Severingham Scammon, dean of Biological Sciences Division; Dr. Frederic Campbell Woodward (temporary), dean of Social Sciences Division...
...late Professor Charles Foster Kent of Yale, a good man, organized the Council eight years ago. Its purpose has been "to cooperate ... in giving students, particularly undergraduate students, a scholarly and sympathetic interpretation of religion, chiefly through the channels of the regular curriculum." The chief method of cooperation has been to select and finance "young men and women of high quality of intellect and spirit" through post-graduate university courses, and then commend such Fellows for teaching and administrative positions. Eighty Fellows have taken jobs in more than 30 schools. Forty more are now studying; chiefly at Harvard, Yale, Columbia...
Last week's plan sets apart 56 of the men as Consultants in Religion. Any academic president or professor who wants advice on social or religious matters may write to any of the 56.* If a Consultant lives in the college town he will give viva voce advice. If he must travel, his expenses should be paid...
...Author. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, 53, onetime (1905-09) professor of Applied Mathematics at Princeton, Research Associate of Mt. Wilson Observatory, sitter in many a mathematical chair, holder of many a scientific medal, has written numerous mathematical, astronomical treatises, one other book telling the plain man what science is up to: The Universe Around...