Education: Shock

"Not since Nov. 4, 1908,* have Harvard men had such a shock," said one William Everett. He referred to the resignation, announced last week, of Le Baron Russell Briggs, 70, Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Everett's words were uttered in full knowledge of the many grievous shocks which, since that momentous fourth of November, have distressed the sons of Harvard — the recent removal of Prof. George Pierce Baker to Yale (TIME, Dec. 8), the threatened departure of Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School (TIME, Jan. 26). He recalled...

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