Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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AND THE DEANS VANDERBILT HAS AS MANY DEANS as a cat has lives, but there the metaphor stops. These nine deans seldom prowl Qthey are for the most part strictly indoor creatures, , none of them has whiskers, and they are all too polite to yawn in a student's face. Deans. are quite different from what they used to be. In our fatherls and grandfather's time, deans carried a stout hickory stick to deal with stray dogs foraging around Kissam, and halted any student, be he an UA or F,', walking on the grass or wearing no tie. Today, however, deans are much like anyone else. They are often mistaken for other adults. Of the nine deans at Vanderbilt, seven belong to the sterner sex and two wear moderately high heels. If the nine were in a darkened theater and a voice spoke up for a doctor in the house, all of them could stand, but only two could set a bone or staunch the blood: Dr. Ernest W. Good- pasture, who until the past March was Dean of the Medical School, and Dean Julia Hereford of the School of Nursing. If the stricken were an undergraduate, he might also need to see Mere- dith P. Crawford, who this year became Dean of Instruction for the Col- lege of Arts 66 Science after being Dean of the old Junior College since 1945, or, if in Engineering, Dean Fred Lewis. If in the Law School, he might do well to consult with Dean Ray Forrester on a suit to recover, if in Religion, a short prayer by Dean John Keith Benton might help. A stricken co-ed might prefer a little earful of advice from Dean of Women Nora C. Chaffin on how to look lady-like as well as invalid, but if she came in a car and left it parked laterally instead of at right angles to the curb, she would wave the M.D. and R.N. aside and seek absolution from Dean of Students Robert S. Waldrop. Finally, if the poor fellow were a graduate student far afield from his stack, he would be wise to plead guilty to his dean, Philip Davidson, who, as Provost of the University, had some business after all for being there. JULIA HERFFORD A. F. KUHLMAN NORA C. CHAFFIN Dzan of 1110 541001 of Nurszng Director of flu' Joint Unifurrxitics Library Dean of W'0men my , WW

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TI IT gg 553 IES 1 l 0 f IMHUVC7 H X-F 6 ,-- '74-A, Editorial Staff of the Vanderbilt Observer fliterary magazinej of 1895