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...year. He eliminated departmental duplication, persuaded students to consolidate their activities (e.g., the university had four student newspapers), raised $44.5 million, which was more than had come in in all the previous 25 years. But his real achievement was something more intangible: restoring to students, facultymen and alumni faith in the future of their university. "I tried," says Heald, "to give them a little sense of destiny...
...problems. Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton has been no exception. In just under six years he has gone far in returning the college to a normal four-year curriculum, favored the revival of football, thrown himself into such necessary activities as clearing the slums around the campus. As a result, many facultymen, whether they agreed with Hutchins or not, have missed the high excitement of his regime, and for one reason or another, some of Chicago's top scholars have drifted away...
...Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine old men"), it fell on such hard times during the Depression that some trustees wondered whether the church should not abandon it. By 1943 enrollment had dropped from 2,000 to 800; facultymen were so hard to find, says one alumnus, that "you could be attending class with a fellow one quarter and find that he was your teacher the next." Though the G.I. Bill started it on the road to recovery, it was not until Wilkinson came along that it really began...
...blonde, 25-year-old woman walked nervously into a large classroom in Geneva one day last week for one of the most exhausting ordeals of her life. Before her sat six facultymen, including experts in English, French and Italian. Behind, a crowd of students waited eagerly to see her perform. They had good reason for wanting to do so: of 750 students at the Interpreters' School, Giovanna Cuirlo of Genoa was the only one found qualified this term to try for the school's highest prize-the conference (or parliamentary) interpreter's certificate...
...significant research in the social sciences and humanities. Now, because of center grants and the fact that a professor at a small college has access to the facilities of 13, every campus has a research program. In the last six years, the center has given 153 research grants, enabled facultymen to publish 79 monographs and 43 books...