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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mere high-I.Q. trade school. It has a student body capable of perpetrating the most ingenious and energetic pranks since Frank Merriwell pitched his upshoot for Yale. And its facultymen, including Nobel laureates, cut capers and figure eights at the Pasadena ice-skating rink, whiz about the campus in sports cars at velocities somewhat under the speed of sound, raise goldfish, beat out lowdown boogie on a piano or saw a 'cello in a community string quartet. One eminent theoretical physicist turned up, ragged and happy as a native, whacking a percussion instrument in a Rio street band...
...Trips. Today, after eight years as president of prosperous (endowment $30 million) Caltech, Lee DuBridge is still a man who will happily spend an afternoon fixing an ailing sewing machine, and then fly off to Washington for a top-secret meeting of the Science Advisory Committee. He runs his campus much as he did the radiation lab, and nowhere is the open-door policy more faithfully followed. Though his days are filled to capacity, he seems always to have time for the unannounced visitor, the troubled student, or for a session of weighty talk punctuated by friendly jokes. But beyond...
...extraordinary stature is one of the phenomena of U.S. education. Since it took its present form only 35 years ago, it is not only the youngest of its peers among U.S. universities, it is also one of the smallest (600 undergraduates, 450 graduate students). On its 30-acre campus of stucco, Mediterranean-style buildings and olive-shaded walks, no one is a stranger, and with its faculty of 350, it has the luxuriously high teacher-student ratio of about one to three. While other campuses glut themselves with courses, Caltech will happily drop a few (most recent examples: meteorology...
Today in the U.S. lacrosse is a familiar sport from Florida to New England and west to the campus of Ohio State. It is only natural that it is a popular offseason diversion for football players who like to keep in shape. At Maryland, Muscleman Frank Tamburello, one of the most promising quarterbacks in collegiate football, is an enthusiastic lacrosse player. And since Navy and Maryland have not met on the football field since 1952, Tamburello and his teammates have an added incentive to scuttle the Middies in lacrosse...
...president of Virginia's College of William and Mary, Vice Admiral Alvin D. Chandler, USN (ret.) has tried to make the easygoing campus a taut ship (TIME, Oct. 22, 1951). Last fortnight he announced that the governing Board of Visitors had ordered him to put tighter regulations into effect next fall. The new rules: no beer on campus, chaperons for every fraternity party, closer administrative control of student publications. Last week the students made public their answer to ship's discipline. In a special poll of the 1,700 undergraduates, more than half of the 1,165 answering...