Berea College - Chimes Yearbook (Berea, KY)

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PRESIDENT WILLIAM I. IIUTCHINS 1932

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1932

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DEAN T. A. HENDRICKS With the increase in enrollment of the College there arises a need for organized per- sonal contact. For this purpose the office of the Dean exists. At first the primary function of the Dean was to enter into the lives of the students and to dispense moral and intellectual advice. Later it became necessary to enforce the rules and regulations pre- scribed by the Administration and Faculty, therefore considering the Dean as the disciplinarian. Perhaps the greatest responsibility of the Dean at present is to reduce, or keep at a minimum the number of college failures, especially among freshmen and sophomores. With this also goes the responsibility of assigning men to dormitories, regard to health, control of social and moral environment in cooperation with the Dean of Women, and most of all he must assist in the solution of the problems peculiar to the individual student. In his many relations with the men of the campus it is always the intent of the Dean to give human rather than an official contact. No two problems are exactly alike, and ii they were the diversity of human nature would not permit the solution of one to be applicable to the other. Hence, the office of the Dean is a clinic where the peculiar problems of the students are sympathetically considered. Some collegiate campus phi- losopher has been led to say humorously that when a man has learned less and less about more and more until at last he knows nothing about everything he may become Dean of Men. 1932 ?age Fifteen