Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old University of Mexico, North America's oldest university,* they were creating a handsome, ultramodern University City, spectacularly expressive of the new, post-revolutionary Mexico. Scheduled for occupancy early next year, the dazzling, $50 million University City is the most up-to-date college campus anywhere...
...convent, the medical faculty the Spanish Inquisition's old headquarters, the art school a onetime leper hospital. In 1948, the university's most powerful alumnus, President Miguel Alemán (Law, '28), decided that the 28,000 students needed a brand-new home-a U.S.-style campus complete with dormitories and a football stadium. A group of faculty and student architects submitted the winning design. Finally, in 1950, Alemán named Architect Carlos Lazo, 38, to take overall charge of the work...
This side of academic life may now tend to disappear. The university expects to establish a full-time faculty. The cost is bound to be heavy. Just to maintain the new campus will take more than the university's present $3,000,000 annual budget. To make a go of the University City, the administration will need almost three times the sum it receives now from the national treasury. In Mexico, as elsewhere, the cost of education is going...
...well over a month, U.S. colleges & universities have been waiting for the day when the new Congress would begin its search for campus subversives. Last week the day finally arrived. First target for Indiana's Senator William E. Jenner, chairman of a special internal security subcommittee: New York City. First witnesses: two professors and two minor officials from Queens, Brooklyn, and City Colleges...
...that the off-campus houses have been found unsuitable for co-ops, however, it will be possible to use the French House if 25 students will agree by March I to live in it next year...