Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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professor of history, as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Beset by a constant stream of new freshmen, vari- ously termed '45, '45a, and '46, Freshman Dean Delmar Leighton plunged into a flood of problems. Settling freshmen in a university hopelessly entangled in war-time confusion was no picnic even with two capable assistants and a corps of beautiful secretaries. The Law School put in a patriotic year. It lost most of its students to the armed forces, and lent its faculty dean, james McCauley Landis, to the government as chairman of the Office of Civilian Defense. Edmund Morris Morgan, acting Dean of the Faculty in Landis, absence, guided the dwindling crop of lawyers through the year. Another major change in graduate administrative personnel came with the appointment of Donald Kirk David as Dean of the Business School. Dean David replaced Wallace B. Donham who, however, remained on the Business School Faculty. Where Dean Morgan's tasks slackened, Dean David's increased with the impetus of the war. Both the army and the navy introduced special courses training men for supply work, and in so doing presented the engaging problem of integrating the military with the regular graduate instruction. This problem-the planning of a program satisfactory for immediate exigencies and yet in line with the national war effort-plagued all the graduate schools. Thus overwhelming demands for doctors forced the Med School, under Dean Charles Burwell, to grind out M.D.'s at an unheard-of rate and at the other end to admit undergraduates without diplomas. Thus, too, everybody not precisely necessary to the war effort tried desperately to be so. More immediately concerned with the undergraduates as individuals were the ofhcers of administration. Known to some but strangers to most, they pulled the strings that regu- lated the studentls daily life. Dedicated to helping the student function better, they worked to keep him in shape, in health, in books-in just about everything. Inter-collegiate athletics, developed under the eye of Director of Physical Education and Athletics William J. Bingham-now a major in the army-put some in shape. Inter-House athletics on a broad scale together with the newly instituted compulsory conditioning program took care of the rest. And for those few who played too little or too much, the ones with the Edmund M. Morgan ftapj is Acting Dean of the Law School while james M. Landis works as head of the Office of Civilian Defense. Wallace B. Donham fnziddlej, retiring Dean of Business School, discusses problems with Donald K. David, the new Dean. Charles S. Burwell, Dean of the Medical School, has been an ac- tive member in the Infantile Paralysis and Cancer commissions.

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ADMHNHSTRAT QN For the lirst time in Harvard's history, some stu- dents lasted longer than some deans. The University was dedicated whole-heartedly to the war, and that meant the top as well as the props. the deans as well as the students. The exodus was steady, the destinations varied, Of the under- graduate deans, F. Skiddy von Stade was the lirst to go. He went to the Navy. In fact, the Navy had a priority as baby deans Christopher Huntington and Richard Sullivan went on special duty in Washington. Richard F, French, Assistant Dean of the college, joined the Army. The voices of authority changed, but somebody was always on hand to tell '43 and '44 how, when, and what to do. The administrative structure still stood. Into the intricate hierarchy of deans at University Hall was woven the authority and numbers of the faculty. And neatly laced into this net- work came the officers of administration. The student was alone, snared in an irresistable web-a spiderlike web of au- thority to some, a silver web of guidance to others. Probation, marks Qin a ghoulish sensej, and trouble in all forms no less than employment aid and scholarships were the features of the typical dean's ofiice, George Henry Chase, professor of Archaeology, con- tinued as Dean of the University, and headed the administra- tive hierarchy. The social sciences provided the others of the big threezn A. Chester Hanford of the government de- partment served as Dean of the College, and Paul H. Buck, ll' --, 'W r , ,U ff'-A Pulitzer Prize winner Paul H. Buck, Historian of the South, has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since last spring. A C Hanford is Colle e Dean and Professor of Government. George H. Chase, archaeologist, is Dean of the University. . . g fl27l'

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sneezes or the sprains, the Hygiene Department headed by Dr. Arlie V. Bock provided prompt and eflicient solace. Most students chose to study. And when they did they had access to thousands of books well-classified by the numbers of capable librarians, under the direction of Keyes Dewitt Metcalf. Not even the autumn blackout of Boylston upset the methodical exactness of the staff. Less in the lime' light than these bookworms, but equally important were the many members of the Maintenance Department. The part of Harvard that never changes, the buildings and equipment, was their province. Business Manager Aldrich Durant and Dining Hall Director Roy Westcott provided the physical comforts and Publicity Director Arthur Sampson the emotional angle. There were others, many too numerous to name but all deserving of mention. They were the worksg they made Harvard click. From the moment when Chairman of Admissions Rich- ard M. Gummere said okay to the end of their college career, '45 and '44 saw the University through the eyes of its adminis- trators. And the visions they evoke in future years will be more the product of these men than of professors, as much of biddies as of instructors. ,,,.4--V x lux Dean R. F. French held office from March to October of this year. Dean Hanford discusses undergraduate academic affairs at periodic meetings with assistant deans in his office in University Hall. ' 'T V ar.. .saw . ,..:,..,?,,-T: 7' ' if-Y . l in r l 1 Jl29l