Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today Duke has the 14th largest university library in the U.S., the second biggest university hospital in the South, a first-rate university school of forestry, and law and divinity schools that are rapidly moving into top rank...
...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...
...took the school a while to outgrow the gibe. But the Duke of President Edens had much to boast of besides its millions. In the past decade, it had doubled in size (to 5,211 students), and as enrollments swelled, standards had been raised to keep out all but top-ranking applicants. World War II finally eliminated the flashy roadster; the veteran drove out the playboy...
Polio & Pellagra. Meanwhile, the medical school had become one of the nation's leading research centers for polio, pellagra and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The Duke physics department bristled with such nuclear names as Henry W. Newson, wartime chief physicist at Oak Ridge, and Lothar W. Nordheim, formerly of the physics division at Oak Ridge...
...President Edens, however, Duke should go even farther. The Tennessee-born president, onetime-teacher in a one-room schoolhouse who rose to become associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's General Education Board, wants to make Duke's graduate schools stronger still. "Our intellectual resources in the South," says he, "exceed all other resources. Yet none of these resources has been more neglected at the highest level." Founder Duke had wanted his university to be one of the nation's top producers of "preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these . . . can do most to uplift mankind." President...