DEANS: A DOLLOP

"Young man, you'reout of college" were words a student once most dreaded.

CRAVEN LAYCOCK served the longest, 22 stern years, before retiring in 1933. His bust in Baker still gives mystical help to students before exams.

ROBERT STRONG directed admissions and deaned the freshmen during World War II. Two men replaced him when he died at age 42.

LLOYD NEIDLINGER revived the fraternities after the war. He served as dean for 15 years before finally resigning, telling friends he was "tired."

GORDON BILL was a mathematician who began selective admissions under Hoppy. The song "Dartmouth Undying" is dedicated to Bill.

RALPHMANUEL., dean when John Kemeny was president, had the distinction of being the first todeal with theReview when it was founded in 1980.

JOSEPHMACDONALD gave up a 29-year economics career to take on another dismal science when John Dickey asked him to dean.

EDWARD SHANAHAN performed for his successor the deanly version of a sacrifice fly with a series of unpopular decisions before he left.

THADDEUSSEYMOUR, a popular former English prof, saw Parkhurst seized in the sixties and went on to head up Wabash and Rollins Colleges.