Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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SERVING in the capacity of both administrator and professor, Charles H. Watts, Dean of the College, queslions students about their various academic worries and social frivolities. Seldom is there a time when one of the undergraduates is not attempting to gain passage into his spacious office to gather hints for academic success. Or a fraternity presi- dent might be pleading the social cause wondering why his brothers will be limited to six parties for the oncoming semester. Also, a frequent speech by the dean at a convocation is worthy of note, For instance, he recently stated that the only real prob lem in education is that of 'too much new knowl- edge of ourselves and the world.! At ancther time, a key to the University's approach to education and to the bicentennial program was dropped by Dean Watts ot the Alumni Advisory Council meeting. He stressed the need for research af a university stating that it liberalizes both faculty and students and prepares them to deal with new idess. His ulti- mate aim was expressed in the need of research as the step fowards greatness for the University. This year, Watts received a well deserved grant from the Carnegie Foundation to study educational sys- tems In various universities during the vear's second semester. w N A N N e l

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administration THE APPOINTED OVER-SEER of the various disclipinary discrepancies of the student, Dean Edward R. Durgin has car- ried his experience in the Navy to these hallowed halls of ivy. Although many have the image of him as a staunch proponent of the letter of the law, he often resorts to sending students to the Refectory to bus trays instead of placing them on col- lege discipline. During his spare time, he may be caught playing checkers, but usually there is a shuddering student awaiting one of his dissertations on the Brown gentleman. To quote Cicero: Truth is grevious, if indeed ill-will arises from it . . . but com- plaisance is much more grevious . . .

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ESTEEMED beyond the prestige asso- ciated with his status, Assistant Dea.n of the College, Robert O, Schultze is himself a social institution at Brown. For it is he who brings the theys down to the we's!! His contact with the undergraduate takes place in sociology classes, his office, Convocation and through his daily 'notices in the BDH, As casual at the above as in the Blue Room, Dean Schultze is as understand- ing and as liberal an administrator s any campus is likely to have. A Yalie originally Robert E LIl Al Dean of Students, is well prepared for dealing with an occasional riot. On call 24 hours a day, it has been more than once that Dean Hill has relocated stu- dents after a fire or rumble with one's roommates.