{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Craven Laycock | image = Craven Laycock (1866–1940).png | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|09|30}} | birth_place = Bradford, Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|04|04|1866|09|30}} | death_place = Hanover, New Hampshire, United States | burial_place = | occupation = Educator, writer | awards = | spouse = {{Marriage|Florence Annette Hill|April 19, 1900}} | children = 2 | education = Dartmouth College | signature = | party = }} '''Craven Laycock''' (1866–1940) was the dean of Dartmouth College from 1911 to 1934. He is perhaps best known as the dean who suspended Theodor Seuss Geisel from editing the Dartmouth humor magazine, after which Geisel wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/drseussmrgeiselb00morg |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/drseussmrgeiselb00morg/page/36 36] |quote=laycock. |title=Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: a biography |year=1996 |accessdate=2010-09-05 |last=Morgan |first=Judith}}</ref>
==Biography== Laycock was born September 30, 1866, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England.<ref name=Thousand>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/onethousandnewha00metciala/page/145/mode/1up |title=One Thousand New Hampshire Notables |editor1-first=Henry Harrison |editor1-last=Metcalf |editor2-first=Frances M. |editor2-last=Abbott |publisher=The Rumford Printing Company |pages=145–146 |date=1919 |access-date=2023-02-28 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In 1882 he and his brothers emigrated to the United States via Halifax, Nova Scotia, settling in Lawrence, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHPLT1QY9LQC&q=harriet+laycock&pg=PA1582 |title=Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume 4 |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |accessdate=2010-09-05 |year=1908}}</ref> From there the family split up, and Craven ended up in New Hampshire as a student at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1896.<ref name="Steinert">{{cite web |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2002/oct/102802e.html |title=Anatomy of a nose-rubbing tradition |last=Steinert |first=Tamara |date=2002-10-28 |accessdate=2010-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612145748/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2002/oct/102802e.html |archive-date=2010-06-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States on May 2, 1896,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzCFNwAACAAJ&q=%22craven+laycock%22 |title=Certificate of Naturalization |accessdate=2010-09-05}}</ref> he became Assistant Professor of Oratory by 1900. Laycock served as Dean of the College from 1911 until 1934.<ref name=Dies>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119897300/craven-laycock-dartmouth-ex-dean-dies/ |title=Craven Laycock, Dartmouth Ex-Dean, Dies Suddenly at 75 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |location=Hanover, New Hampshire |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119897405/craven-laycock-dartmouth-ex-dean-dies/ 17] |date=1940-04-04 |access-date=2023-02-28 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
He married Florence Annette Hill on April 19, 1900, and they had two daughters.<ref name=Thousand/>
Craven Laycock died in Hanover, New Hampshire on April 4, 1940.<ref name=Dies/>
==Bust== Laycock's classmates later commissioned artist Nancy Cox-McCormack to create a bust in his honor. By 1934, it had become the tradition of Dartmouth students to rub the nose of the bust for good luck before exams.<ref name="Steinert"/>
==Books== Craven Laycock was the author or co-author of several books on debate, including ''Argumentation and Debate'', co-authored with Robert Leighton Scales, ''Manual of Argumentation'', and ''Manual of Argumentation: for High Schools and Academies'', co-authored with Albion Keith Spofford.
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