Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Teacher. Today, the college's 1,162 students still divide their time between study and labor. But as a result of the administrations of Frost, William J. Hutchins and his son Francis, the old campus looks like anything but a pioneer settlement. Its endowment has grown to $16 million. It has a school of nursing, runs a 357-student Foundation School where anyone, no matter what his age, can get a basic education. Berea students help run the college's 65-bed hospital. They can study forestry on its 5,600 acres of woodland, learn agriculture...
Smith's Mary Ellen Chase, 68, silver-thatched, silver-tongued bestselling author (Silas Crockett, Mary Peters}, whose courses in English literature have long borne, by Smith custom, the proud and simple label, "Chase," and whose domestically detailed quizzes have been immortalized by a bit of campus doggerel: "What were the colors of Pamela's socks ?/Long white jobs with classy clocks./What did Don Quixote masticate ?/Old fried pidgeon served up in state." Whether reading Pater aloud by her own fireside, working out a Latin anagram, or putting her students through their paces in class, Teacher Chase...
...changed. The steel-grey Hudson and its heroic cliffs gave place to the Nittany Valley of Pennsylvania, rolling placidly southeast from the low green humps of Bald Eagle Ridge. Skies turned to unspectacular grey, and as the President dressed in gold-tasseled cap and gown walked out onto the campus of Pennsylvania State University to receive an honorary doctorate of laws and address a second graduating class, it was raining-not a downpour, but a thick, unspectacular drizzle...
...this campus this morning;, I had the privilege of inspecting the first atomic reactor of its kind established under university auspices . . . The extent of the economic and industrial changes that we can anticipate is indicated by estimates that world sources of uranium potentially available contain as high as 20 times the energy of the known world reserves of coal, petroleum and natural gas combined . . ." Look to the Atom. "Our nation has no desire for a monopoly on the knowledge and practice of these possibilities. We want the world to share-as we always have...
...entire senate (some 20 professors) at the University of Göttingen resigned in shocked protest. Then followed one of the most heartfelt outbursts of democratic feeling in West Germany's brief history. Students all over Germany protested; Göttingen's 5,000 students remained off campus, educators and scientists flooded the state government with protests. The West German press blasted him with editorials, devoting more space to his case than to Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade. Said the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Schlüter is not accused of a false belief of yesterday...