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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the University of Houston started out as a four-year institution in 1934, it had 909 students and one big shack on the San Jacinto High School campus. It also had one unusual asset: Vice President Walter W. Kemmerer. A Ph.D. from Columbia, Kemmerer was a blunt go-getter who thought he knew exactly what sort of university Houston should have...
...behind its philosophy ("We will teach anybody anything he wants"), he offered everything from a six-hour course in cafeteria sanitation to an eight-year course leading to a Ph.D. He made friends with Oilman Hugh Roy Cullen, channeled some of Cullen's millions into a vast new campus. He put up buildings for the colleges of law, pharmacy, nursing and optometry, saw the university's enrollment rise...
Kemmerer had no alternative ("When they don't want me," he had often said, "I'll resign"). But when the announcement came out last week, his old campus seemed to adjust quickly to the news. For many months, a large segment at Houston had been advocating a new philosophy : the university is a big place now, and it needs a big name to head it. The case, said one Houstonian, is really quite simple: "Kemmerer has built the school into something bigger than himself...
Next day the Crimson trumpeted the news. In a straight-faced story, it solemnly reported that its old campus rival, the Lampoon, had given the Russians its ibis, the sacred bird that has stood on the Lampoon roof for 43 years-off & on. But as everyone knew, it was all a hoax, perpetrated by the Crimson itself. Cried one Lampoon staffer, as he entered negotiations to get his bird back: "The Crimson men have no imagination. This was just addleheaded vandalism...
...Dartmouth College students were expelled last night for getting an eight-year-old Hanover boy drunk at a dormitory party and depositing him on the campus...