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...years since it began, the powerful (37,500 members) American Association of University Professors has been looked upon by facultymen across the U.S. as the guardian of their rights and liberties. But last week, at its annual meeting, the A.A.U.P. was faced with a bitter attack from within its own ranks. In censuring eight campuses for alleged violations of academic freedom, the association seemed to some to be using the very arbitrary methods it had been set up to denounce...
...University of California, facultymen have started meeting once a week
...devout Quaker, he seemed just the man for the nation's oldest Quaker college. He knew all his 450 students by name, and on Campus Day, when students and facultymen don old clothes to work at some campus building project, President White was out there hammering with the rest of them. Though he looked like an undergraduate himself, he managed to give Haverford some of the happiest years of its life. He raised faculty salaries quadrupled scholarships, more than doubled the endowment to $10 million. He served as vice chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, was adviser...
...task was to reduce the scientists' mysterious, often mystical communications to human equations. Fortunately, Caltech is no mere high-I.Q. trade school. It has a student body capable of perpetrating the most ingenious and energetic pranks since Frank Merriwell pitched his upshoot for Yale. And its facultymen, including Nobel laureates, cut capers and figure eights at the Pasadena ice-skating rink, whiz about the campus in sports cars at velocities somewhat under the speed of sound, raise goldfish, beat out lowdown boogie on a piano or saw a 'cello in a community string quartet. One eminent theoretical...
...within its sphere better than anyone else, then there's no sense in doing it at all." Over the years, it has either trained or hired for permanent positions five Nobel Prizewinners. It has 42 names in American Men of Science and the highest percentage (9%) of facultymen in the National Academy of Sciences...