Word: campus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old son of Kentucky's attorney general, and with him his 34-year-old law partner. The partner was none other than brash, hulking Edward F. Prichard Jr., the onetime New Deal wonder boy whose brass, brains & belly (he weighed 300 lbs.) made him a campus phenomenon at both Princeton and Harvard Law School, who hustled off to Washington at the age of 24 to help Franklin Roosevelt run the country. Four years ago Prichard had come back to Kentucky in search of a political career...
...became a founder and later the second president of the Woman's College of Baltimore, and he and his wife spent much of their fortune building its campus. It was the first accredited women's college below the Mason-Dixon line, and its prestige grew. By 1910, when the school was renamed Goucher College in honor of its benefactors, it was one of the top colleges for women...
Town & Country. Since 1942 Goucher has had two campuses, one the original site in Baltimore, the other an unfinished modern campus eight miles away in suburban Towson. It was one too many. The plan had been to move Goucher intact to Towson. Then wartime shortages and skyrocketing prices slowed construction...
Half of Goucher's activities take place in town, on the old campus, half in the country. To keep student traffic moving between Baltimore and Towson, Goucher has gone into the transportation business, at a cost to the college of about $50.000 a year. Among the commuters is President Kraushaar himself, who has an office on campus No. i and a house near campus No. 2. His main job will be to raise $2,000,000 to complete the move to Towson. If all goes well, his girls will be getting together...
From payments already received Rutgers will build a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology (study of living organisms too small for the naked eye to see) on the campus at New Brunswick. Also on hand or in sight is $250,000 from the Waksman gift to be used for the institute's operating expenses. Dr. Waksman, on the Rutgers staff for more than 25 years, will be the institute's director...