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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper Dutchess County, there is nothing about the place to make the itinerant Bohemian feel himself in Philistia. For Bard, in its unique approach to the liberal and creative arts stresses education of the individual to such a degree that intellectual and social individualism have run wild on the campus...
Those individuals who do go to Bard find themselves in the midst of an extra-ordinarily beautiful campus. But Bard presents an unimpressive physical plant. The girls' dormitories and one of the boys dormitories are excellent, both roomy and comfortable. Most of the men, however, live in barracks--wooden structures put up temporarily after the war and never replaced. The science building is very fine, but the old structure where most of the classes are held and where most administration offices are located is horrible. An offensive odor pervades the place and the stairs creak menacingly. The theatre is miniscule...
...have a most unique social life. The most obvious thing about it is its apparent informality. Jeans and shirt-sleeves are worn continually every day of the week, excepting a few formal dance nights. Bardians congregate in three centers of social activity. During the day, they drop into the campus coffee shop, located in the same building as the women's dorms and the science laboratories, where they fraternize in irregular bunches around variously shaped tables, intermittently moving to and from the counter and the post office, which adjoins the restaurant...
...ninth chancellor, Clifford Furnas, 53, will rule over a $25 million plant and a substantial ($4 million) budget. But since enrollments are expected to go up another 60%, he will have to keep his campus expanding. He seems to combine the necessary talents. A top metallurgist and a former professor of chemical engineering at Yale, he is also an able administrator who has seen his laboratory staff grow from 50 to 450. But his greatest asset will probably be his adopted city...
...first time in 76 years, Yale's undergraduate Daily News decided not to print the names of the 90 juniors tapped for membership by the six top-prestige campus secret societies last week. The radio station, WYBC, also kept mum. Explained News Chairman Roger L. Stone, himself a junior: the news blackout was motivated by a "reorientation in values and a hope for lessening the prestige factor on campus...