Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trinity College, moved in last summer. Spokane's Gonzaga University (enrollment: 2,440) has its own six-story building in Florence, and California's University of Redlands (enrollment: 1,500) leases a building in Salzburg. Temple University announced last week that it will open an art branch in a villa on the Tiber River in Rome. At least 10 U.S. universities operate 15 independent branches in Europe...
...overseas branch is a refinement of the fast-multiplying programs (70 to date) in which U.S. schools annually send some 10,000 students abroad. Even a small school like Michigan's Kalamazoo College (enrollment: 1,100), for example, sends 90% of its students overseas. Stanford officials, however, prefer the branch concept, arguing that it permits them to shape their own curriculum abroad, eliminates any problems in meshing programs and credits, eases the need for extensive foreign-language instruction. It also permits the U.S. school to pick its own site instead of sending its students to crowded university towns where...
Meeting the Natives. To critics who contend that the branch concept keeps the American from really getting to know Europeans, Stanford's President J. E. Wallace Sterling points out that the students study only four days a week, freely mingle with townspeople on the other three. Each Stanford student in Germany is "adopted" by a German family, dines in a village home weekly. Students in Austria form a mixed choir with local people. The Florence campus is more isolated, but not enough, as Coed Martha Craig discovered, to keep Italian men from "following you in hordes...
Maass and Cooper defend the measure as effective use of the legislative veto, "a new and promising mechanism of legislative oversight." They point out that it is used when the President submits plans for the reorganization of agencies and functions in the executive branch, which do not go into effect until Congress has 60 days to study and perhaps veto them...
...Rockefeller participated in both a major discussion and a minor decision. In Brussels, he took part in negotiations leading toward part ownership of Belgium's Bank du Commerce by the Chase. In Paris, he ordered a $300,000 face-lifting for the Chase's 55-year-old branch on the Rue Cambon. "We'll look like the '60s instead of the '30s," exulted Paris General Manager Edouard Eller after his boss had left. "French customers will like that. It's the American image...