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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's biggest kennel of inbred beagles is "Beagleville," on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It has another distinction: most of its 450 beagles are radioactive. Their job under an Atomic Energy Commission contract is to determine the "burden" of radioactivity that a beagle (or human) body can carry for a lifetime without damage. The dogs are injected with graduated amounts of plutonium, radium, radiothorium or mesothorium. These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha particles...
...Donham brought D. Elton Mayo, a young Australian psychologist, to the school for experimentation in the untried field of human relations. Mayo's pioneering work led eventually to post-war changes in the school's curriculum. Today human relations is a significant topic on the business school campus. It is already the basis of two new post-war courses and is likely to influence the school's curriculum still further...
...most of the trustees, David Henry was fully satisfactory. As executive head of Wayne from 1939 to 1952, he had seen enrollments rise from 11,800 to a peak of 18,300. He added $20 million worth of buildings to his plant, watched Wayne's one-block campus spread out to cover 20. But like most college presidents of the postwar years, he had also brushed with controversy. To at least one Illinois official-Vernon Nickell, the state's superintendent of public instruction and powerful ex officio member of the board that made Henry highly suspect...
...charges that Henry had once appointed an ex-Communist to the Wayne faculty and that two other teachers were suspended last year for refusing to answer questions before a congressional committee. Nickell also wanted to know why in 1947 Henry had been so slow to ban the campus chapter of American Youth for Democracy. The fact that Henry did ban it as soon as the FBI made it clear that the A.Y.D. was an offshoot of the Young Communist League did not seem to faze
...tales of Nickell's probe plans spread beyond the Illinois campus. Finally, last week, Henry decided he had had enough. "The search for a new president,'' he wrote the trustees, "which began on the highest professional and ethical level, has degenerated into a process of public review which repudiates the board's own procedural method." As for the presidency, he would not take it even if it were offered...