Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white buck is still the number-one shoe on the Tiger campus, outselling other shoes, 20 to 1, in the University Store, the Dally Princetonian reported yesterday...
...easier said than done. Already overcrowded and harassed by budget troubles, they must now find the funds, build new facilities, hire more teachers at a time when they are suffering from a shortage of all three. In 1954 the Economic Report of the President estimated that the U.S. college campus is already $6 billion behind in its building program. Furthermore, says President John A. Perkins of the University of Delaware, "it has been estimated that in the next 15 years as much floor space will have to be provided for higher education as was built in the 300 previous years...
With or without enough teachers, campus after campus was last week poring over blueprints for expansion. At his inaugural. Chancellor C. C. Furnas of the University of Buffalo announced that he expected to double his enrollment of 10,000 by 1970. Hamilton College plans to increase enrollment from 575 to 700; the University of Detroit may go up from 8,500 to as many as 12,000. Bradley University plans to increase full-time enrollments from 2,500 to 3,500; Alfred University is starting a building program to accommodate a possible jump of 300 over its present student body...
...California, where 80% of college and university students attend public institutions, the pattern of the future is already well established. The state now has 66 publicly supported junior colleges, and the University of California has never shied away from opening up new campuses. Elsewhere, says President Samuel Gould of Antioch College, the urban college or university may play an increasingly bigger role in taking up the slack. "The idea of a central college with a number of branches located in strategic and nearby places will become the accepted permanent pattern." Businessmen and community leaders will serve as part-time teachers...
Graduate students now live in three small off-campus houses which can accommodate only 39 girls. Other students have to find their own living quarters in Cambridge...