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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Cora C. Colburn, 72, culinary authority with the rank of professor, director of Yale University Dining Halls, where she fed 3,500 Yalemen daily at an average charge of 42? per Yaleman; of a heart attack in her office; in New Haven, Conn...
...navy quota remained the same; the air force got 30. Catholic aumônier general (chaplain general), commanding 500-odd Catholic aumƦniers, is Monsignor Maurice Sudour, Archdeacon of St. Denis, who gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear confession, give extreme unction, sing mass at portable altars, at any time under any conditions...
...greatest burden of undergraduate teaching, since they give the most important courses and provide the most competent tutorial instruction. Under the old tenure plan, they might roughly have been classed as the assistant professors plus the associate professors. When the Committee of Eight proposed to abolish the rank of assistant professor, it was not proposing to reduce the middle group to that extent. Instead, it intended that this number be held constant, and that for every assistant professorship abolished, a new associate professorship should be created. The money to pay these new associates was, in effect, to come from savings...
After his first appointee had displayed a lack of administrative tact, Mr. Conant chose as Plan Chairman a man who had real interest in the program and a willingness to devote his abilities to it. But pressure of duties in his new rank as assistant dean have forced him to resign and the President has failed to name any successor. The possibilities for the position are apparently limited in the presidential mind to the members of the Committee sponsoring the Plan: the professors of American History and Literature. But one of these is following in the wake of Columbus, another...
...survived last year's shakeup. Experienced, willing, and free from the worries and obligations attendant upon a full professorship, Henry N. Smith, Counsellor in the Union, seems an excellent choice for executive head of the American Civilization Plan. The President would do well to waive the question of rank, and appoint this logical candidate. The Plan perished once from administrative neglect; it is not long likely to display the tenacity...