Education: New Presidents

West Virginia. Small (enrollment 3,069) West Virginia University last week announced the appointment as its president of "the outstanding person in the field of education throughout the country." This person was identified as Chauncey Samuel Boucher, U. S. historian and dean of the College at the University of Chicago where he is No. 2 Man of Robert Maynard Hutchins' Chicago Plan.

Distinctly unprofessorial in appearance, slim, wiry Dean Boucher is given to sport clothes, neither looks nor acts his 49 years. Students' chief criticism of him is that he slaps too many...

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