Coulter believed that one of the first duties of the dean was to inspire and uplift the students in active service. He spoke of the soul and of the spirit and of the divine quest of "lifting youth into higher ideals, into a nobler life." (Author)

Sketches of four early deans in the student personnel field, Stanley Coulter, Mary Bidwell Breed, Gertrude S. Martin and Herbert E. Hawkes, are presented. (Author)

Reviews the work of Gertrude S. Martin who did research on the position of dean to women and other research in a field that would come to be known as student personnel work. Her career personified problems she had identified. (BEF)

Mary Bidwell Breed predicted that midwestern universities would probably "pass through a stage of educational development in which the liberal arts are entirely feminized, the men are entirely commercialized." We can appreciate how close she came to pinpointing trends which did not begin to be reversed until sixty years later.…