A biographical sketch of LeBaron Russell Briggs, "the first officer in the history of American higher education charged with responsibility for student relations as separate and distinct from instruction." He was appointed Dean of Harvard College in 1891. (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)

This brief biography of Marion Talbot (born in 1858) touches on her interest in educating the consumer, her belief in equality between the sexes, her work as Dean of Women at the University of Chicago, and her research. Talbot was concerned about the changes urbanization, industrialization and technology were making. (Author/JEL)

Presents a short biographical essay on Herbert E. Hawkes who died in 1943. Before becoming dean of Columbia College, he had published noteworthy textbooks on mathematics and had taught at Yale and Columbia. His educational and administrative policies are reviewed here. (BEF)

Fourth in a series of vignettes of selected men and women who first entered and developed the profession of student personnel administration. (PD)

This is a series of short biographical essays on LeBaron Russell Briggs (Harvard), Marion Talbot (University of Chicago), Thomas Arkle Clark (University of Illinois), and Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry. These were pioneers in student personnel work at the turn of the century. (BEF)

Reviews the life of Thomas Arkle Clark, former Dean of Men at the University of Illinois, whose writings and speeches helped define the Dean of Men role and publicize the office. (Author)