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...down the way, a $1,250,000 law building. A graduate school of business and an expanded engineering program will bring more students and the faculty will be enlarged. "I want Vanderbilt to be a great American university, not just a fine Southern university," says Chancellor Harvie Branscomb...
Chancellor Branscomb took over in 1946. He put in nine years of dealing with the cliquish, 44-man board, and then persuaded Harold S. ("Mike'') Vanderbilt to accept the presidency and lead the school back to the role that his great-grandfather had charted for it-strengthener of ties "between all sections of our common country." Sportsman and Financier Vanderbilt was the first of his family to serve on the board, and he took the job seriously; in private airplanes, he flies into Nashville once a month from homes in New York, Palm Beach and Virginia, works...
...Crusty Leader. The student body of 3,861 is well above the national average in scholastic achievement, and Branscomb has helped by minimizing frills such as football and fraternities. Tuition has risen $400 since 1958 to the present $1,000 a year. More than half the students come to Vanderbilt from outside Tennessee, but it remains segregated in all except its professional and graduate schools, where desegregation is only token...
...Vanderbilt's Chancellor Harvie Branscomb, 66, a Methodist theologian, has ably integrated the Nashville campus (3,700 students) despite such problems as the recent crisis over the expulsion of a Negro divinity student. Most of Vanderbilt's initial Ford money will go into its prestigious law school...
...week's end Divinity Student Lawson was unsure whether or not to accept Vanderbilt's offer. But nine of the twelve faculty men had already withdrawn their resignations. Said Chancellor Branscomb: "This matter is now closed, and except for necessary details, will not be further discussed...