Rotating Chair

A chair which rotates but does not swivel is the board chairmanship of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Foundation's work is handled by its president, who since June 1930, some four years after he was politically ousted from the University of Washington, has been energetic Dr. Henry Suzzallo (TIME, June 3, 1930). He it is who runs the Foundation's educational surveys, which have been made public in 52 fat brochures (in preparation are studies of the relations of higher and secondary education in Pennsylvania and California). The board chairmanship, a purely honorary post, rotates among pundits active in other positions. Some who have held it: Harvard's late great Charles William Eliot and its present President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Yale's late great Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus William Frederick Slocum of Colorado College, President Rush Rhees of the University of Rochester. Sir Robert Alexander Falconer of the University of Toronto. Princeton's Dr. John Grier Hibben has been president since November 1930. His turn ended last week. Elected to take the next turn was twinkling, goat-bearded President William Allan Neilson of Smith College. Only one meeting a year will keep Dr. Neilson from his accustomed activities, which have included writing scholarly books on Shakespeare and Chaucer; chaffing (he is witty, Scottish) with his German wife; endeavoring drily to confuse humorless alumnae and joining gaily in at class reunions (see cut), telling proudly how he was once kissed by a small, fervent blonde whom he had just berated and expelled from Smith.

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