Word: deans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived with and lived up to. The 1958 record looked even better because of Communism's failure to keep up its Sputnik momentum. And while the U.S. failed to define the grand plan-despite the stabs made by President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson, et al.-this failure was mitigated by the fact that, as the year closed, leaders of both parties were finally convinced that the definition was urgently necessary...
...World War II vets took on-job or school training, 2,200,000 of them in college. There they built no Hutchins "hobo jungles" but Quonset villages whence hard-working married vets set new high standards of academic achievement. "They knew how to move," says a Harvard dean, "and they moved." They more than doubled the number who, by prewar standards, would have been trained for the professions: 168,000 doctors and dentists, 105,000 lawyers, 93,000 social scientists and economists, 238,000 teachers, 440,000 engineers, 112,000 scientists...
Four to One. Founding Dean Walter Williams, Bible student and orator, was a Missouri editor who did not go to college. But he insisted from the start that a Mizzou journalism student devote some 75% of his curriculum to the liberal arts and sciences, a requirement still in effect and now the standard for most schools. To give his students practical training, Newsman Williams mortgaged his house, set up the Columbia Missourian, a daily largely written and edited by students under faculty supervision, which competes in Columbia (pop. 45,000) with the Tribune, trails its opposition in paid circulation...
...Missouri has some weaknesses that are reflected in journalism schools as a whole. By nimbly dodging through the course catalogue, an aspiring newsman can get away with only one term of general economics, one year of English literature, one year of history. Few faculty members have major professional credits. Dean Earl Franklin English, 53, an earnest, dark-haired man with seven years' experience as a newsman on small papers and a doctorate in psychology, grants that he would like to bolster his faculty, but says frankly that he cannot with Missouri's salary scale...
...formality had to be observed, even though the outcome was never in doubt. Last week 81,500-odd "Grand Electors" of France-deputies, senators, mayors, deputy mayors, municipal councilors-elected the first President of the Fifth Republic. There were three candidates: an obscure Communist mayor, a Sorbonne dean, and Charles de Gaulle...