Rhinelander Likely Choice As New Dean at Stanford

Philip H. Rhinelander '29, until last spring Director of General Education at the College, has been tentatively appointed Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., it was learned yesterday.

Rhinelander's appointment to the post, which corresponds on the undergraduate level to that of Dean Bundy here, still requires official approval by Stanford's governing body. Stanford President John E. W. Sterling, reached in Palo Alto yesterday, said he "could not yet confirm" the appointment but disclosed that Rhinelander has visited Stanford within the past month.

In Boston, Rhinelander said that "any comment from me would be premature." Still on the University Faculty as a lecturer on Philosophy and General Education, he returned this weekend to Oxford University, where he has been studying philosophy on leave of absence from Harvard.

Resigned General Education Post

Rhinelander resigned form the directorship of General Education here last May, when the Administration decided to rotate the post among tenured faculty members. Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, replaced him.

As dean of the undergraduate college at Stanford, Rhinelander would be in charge of the appointments and curriculum of the undergraduate faculty. He would take an active role in the administration of Stanford's "General Education" program, which, according to President Sterling, is currently being "reviewed and revised."

Besides his General Education duties, Rhinelander lectured in Humanities 4 and tutored in Philosophy while at the College.