Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stanford University decided to move its medical school from San Francisco, where real estate and operating costs come high, to the Palo Alto campus down the peninsula. Population has grown fast around Palo Alto, insuring plenty of patients for students to observe in the university hospital...
...From his comfortable office in No. 1 Nassau Hall, Dodds has kept his administrative machinery humming with apparent effortlessness. He has tripled his endowment to $73 million, nearly doubled his faculty to 380, put up the great Firestone Library, added the $1,500,000 Forrestal Research Center to his campus. But all this was merely in extension of the slogan that Woodrow Wilson left behind: "Princeton in the nation's service...
...students this kind of knowledge, Dodds has placed his emphasis on the individual teacher and learner. He has set up broad special study programs in the humanities, American civilization and the creative arts. He has set up full-fledged departments of music and religion, has constantly reminded his campus to "look to religion for the truths that will not perish." The target Dodds has set for himself: not novelty, but depth...
Today, at 64, he is still a remote figure to people both on and off his campus. Nevertheless, Princetonians have felt his influence-the healthy influence of the Ivy League's able Quiet One, whose contribution to U.S. education has been less to create than to conserve. Last week, after 20 years, Harold Dodds had every intention of pursuing his course. "Hitler, F.D.R., Conant and I," says he, "all came into power at the same time, and I'm the only one still doing what...
...Brehm to the Morristown Sun (circ. 3,989). The winning editorial: "The Sad Case of UT's President," a rousing attack on President Brehm for "giving way to a pressure group" and refusing to allow a Russian movie and old Charlie Chaplin films to be shown on his campus. Said President Brehm: "Everyone has the right to have convictions and to express them...