Education: Cotton Top

"Cotton-Top"

University officials do not like to talk of their affairs until things have actually happened. Even then, Harvard's elderly President Abbott Lawrence Lowell often refuses to talk directly to the Press. Boston and Cambridge were wondering last week what would be the result of an article in the Boston Globe which purported to reveal the name of the next dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences—next most important position to that of the president of the University. This week the Harvard Board of Overseers meets to elect a successor to the...

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