Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From a study of 42 major colleges and universities, Vance, Sanders & Co. of Boston described how the modern campus invests its money: 56% in common stocks, 29.1% in bonds, 5.8% in preferred stocks, 6.4% in mortgages, real estate and plant. Its favorite common stocks: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Christiana Securities, General Motors, General Electric, Du Pont, Standard Oil of California, Texas Co., International Paper, Union Carbide & Carbon, American Telephone & Telegraph...
Earth & Sky. As usual, Eero Saarinen has much to keep him busy far into the night. With 39 major structures already built, he has $35 million worth of works in progress, involving 50 buildings, 21 campus residences and one $300,000 house. As usual he is never completely satisfied with his own projects nor with the general state of his profession...
Outdoor Mass. Manhattan's San Juan fiesta was held on the campus of Fordham University. In charge was handsome, energetic Msgr. Joseph F. Connolly. Working with him was young (29) Father Ivan Illich, Austrian-born Roman-trained linguist whose work among Manhattan Puerto Ricans was recently recognized by Francis Cardinal Spellman, who asked him to serve as vice rector of the Catholic University in San Juan. (The Cardinal also had 22 of the Diocese's newly ordained priests study Spanish at Georgetown University, sent eight New York priests to serve temporarily in Puerto Rico.) Cardinal Spellman, New York...
Survival of a Campus. The Japanese tried to control Ewha by forbidding the teaching of English and Christianity and by deporting the school's foreign teachers. But, says Ewha's President Helen Kim, "they had a hard time. The Japanese hoped we would rather die out. But we didn't die." In 1950 the Communists ran into much the same situation. They took over the school's buildings, but by the time they did. President Kim and 900 students had fled to set up shop in 50 tents on a hillside above Pusan...
...office; by 9:30 his voluminous correspondence was out of the way, and he was ready for the day's business that often lasted into the night. In his first year he traveled 30,000 miles in Pennsylvania to find out what services his campus could render the state's agriculture and industry. He raised faculty salaries 35%, enlarged the library by 26%, put up the $3,000,000 Hetzel Union Building, a new research reactor building, an all-faith chapel. He raised the liberal-arts requirements for technology students. In 1953 Penn State officially became a university...