Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulpit, reshaping a landscape once principally adorned by loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre...
Statewide Campus. Next to the last colony into the Union, North Carolina lacked good seaports for the cotton-slave boom that swept Virginia and South Carolina. "A vale of humility," the state was called, "between two mountains of conceit." In the Civil War it lost more soldiers than any other Confederate state; later it suffered its share of corrupt Reconstruction government until 1901. Heading the new leaders that year: "Education Governor" Charles B. Aycock, whose fiery crusade for schools got a new one built every day for ten years, gave education a permanent claim on a lion's share...
...Although the proposal is certainly worth exploration, it is too early to commit ourselves definitely," commented Frederic G. Fassett, Jr., Dean of Residence at M.I.T. The Off Campus Housing Bureau, which operates a listing service of available housing for Tech students, will not give up its functions in favor of a central agency until the new group can prove its merit, he explained...
...this summer, will spend next school year learning his job under Davis. The school that he will take over in September 1960 now has 1,050 students, a healthy endowment of $1.6 million (contributed mostly by Greek-Americans, partly by Athenian Greeks), and a spectacular, 35-acre mountain campus. Teaching, done mostly in Greek, follows roughly the curriculum prescribed by the nation's Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most Greek academies are. President Davis has spread the six-year Greek secondary-school program through...
...will cause a major revision of the regulations of the M.I.T. Off Campus Housing Bureau, which operates a service listing available apartments and rooming houses for Tech students, Frederic G. Fassett, Jr., Dean of Residence, said yesterday...