Word: dornbusch
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...faculty with a small cadre of ambitious professors who spread the gospel of Bay area living all over the East and Midwest. Instead of high pay, Stanford offered such lures as 100% loans for building handsome ranch houses on university land. To snag former Harvard Sociologist Sanford M. Dornbusch, Stanford doubled its sociology department with men of his choice. In similar deals Stanford captured American Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard after 23 years at Harvard. When the faculty got so good that...
More pressing to President Sterling, who stays close to the 9,827 students despite endless road trips for money, is the inadequacy of physical facilities. The library, says Dornbusch, "is the worst I have ever seen in a major university." Such needs are the point of PACE, and Sterling will not rest until they are met. Even in public-educating California, he tells PACE dinners across the country, "There is still room for a demonstration of what can be done by private aspiration, initiative and enterprise...