Talk:Edwin S. Burdell

Director to President, title change at Cooper Union

Hmmm, seems to be a problem in terminology.

Cooper Union has had a President in recent history, but the role of the President seems to have been filled by the "Director" in the past. It seems during his service, Edwin S. Burdell's title changed from "Director" to "President" of Cooper Union, and the title Director was no longer used.

The Board of Trustees had also had a "President".

Adding to the fun is that the "Director"'s post was actually vacant for a 15 years. Burdell was eventually appointed to the dormant post.

So technically, Charles Russell Richards, as the previous director, would preceed Burdell, rather than Gano Dunn, as Director/President.

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From: Time Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772034,00.html

Monday, Nov. 14, 1938

On the Bowery

One warm morning last week a procession of men and women in academic gowns, including many a U. S. college president, many a big name in Science and Art, solemnly circled a massive, dingy brownstone building in the shadow of the Third Avenue elevated on Manhattan's Bowery. Then they marched into a basement auditorium to see big-eared Dr. Edwin Sharp Burdell, former dean of humanities at M. I. T., installed as director of Cooper Union.

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the trustees decided to appoint a director, which Cooper Union had not had for 15 years.

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From: http://www.oswego.edu/~waite/RichardsByElliottV2.doc

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Cooper Union

Charles [Russell ] Richards left his job at Teacher’s College to become director of Cooper Union in 1908.

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In 1923, Richards resigned from Cooper Union to become director of the American Association of Museums.

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See also:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865535-1,00.html

Time Magazine

The Emancipator

Monday, Oct. 15, 1956

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Today, under able President Edwin Sharp Burdell, onetime dean of humanities at M.I.T., Cooper Union still stretches the minds of its 1,300 students with a far greater success than is generally known.

[...] Lent 19:31, 10 July 2007 (UTC)