Word: caltech
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Most Reed students come from California, followed by Oregon, Washington and New York. The universal lure is Reed's blend of social and academic freedom. "Dad dreamed of Caltech," says one boy from Los Angeles. "I didn't want to leave out the humanities, and Portland is a convenient 1,000 miles from home." The dominance of outsiders is one of Reed's chief problems with Portland. Harvard-trained President Richard H. Sullivan on the one hand exults in his students' hot loyalty to "the Reed community," and on the other laments their disdain for Portland...
...like Edward R. Murrow and thinks like Tycoon Stanford. The son of a United Church of Canada minister, Sterling worked his way through the University of Toronto pitching hay and peddling furniture polish. He got his doctorate at Stanford in 1938, went on to a distinguished teaching career at Caltech, where he also doubled as a CBS news analyst. He was director of the Huntington Library in 1949 when Stanford found...
...Fresher than Princeton." Once a purely Western preserve, Stanford now ranks third behind Harvard and M.I.T. and just ahead of Caltech as the first-choice college of National Merit scholars. The graduate business school's students are 25% Ivy Leaguers. The university is getting so international-minded that it now has 503 students at branch campuses in Florence, Stuttgart, Tours, Tokyo and Taipei...
...school had proved so successful that Northrop turned it into a subsidiary company with the sole function of educating technicians for the entire aircraft industry. By 1947, the two-year school was rolling in subsidized G.I. Bill students. McKinley, sensing an opportunity to make the school into a junior Caltech, bought it from Northrop and turned it by 1960 into a tax-exempt institution valued...
...Drive. All this "enlarging of horizons" impressed Caltech's Dean of Freshmen Foster Strong, when he headed the committee that approved accreditation of N.I.T. as a four-year degree-granting school in 1958. The geographical spread of N.I.T. students. Strong discovered, "was even better than Caltech's."The dedicated faculty, one examiner recalls, "had zip and drive...