Herbert E. Hawkes

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Herbert E. Hawkes
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Herbert E. Hawkes had awesome hair. He was also Dean of Columbia College for a long, long time, helping pass through many of the reforms which helped build the Core Curriculum. A defender of the liberal arts, he opposed the "Columbia plan," which would have allowed College students to graduate in less than four years.

A mathematician by training, he joined the faculty in 1910, becoming acting dean in 1917 and ascending to the full deanship a year later.

He possibly may or may not have made remarks that may or may not be later interpreted as anti-Semitic.

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Preceded by
Frederick P. Keppel
Dean of Columbia College 
1918-1943
Succeeded by
Harry J. Carman