Word: fagg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pilot Light. The faculty rebelled in 1946, got the trustees to "elevate" Von KleinSmid to chancellor, which he still is. His successor, President Fred Fagg Jr., was popular, but he resigned in discouragement after U.S.C. stood still in the postwar decade that transformed most universities. U.S.C, was so dormant that in 1955, when it grandly announced a drive for $75 million, the plan never really got off the ground...
...plan has a better chance, thanks to Fagg's able successor, Physician Topping, 53, former vice president of the University of Pennsylvania. In his 2½ years. President Topping has relit the pilot light. Under way are 1,000 research projects. Already moving into the trimester system, the school has a new $660,000 Ford grant to speed up teacher training by one year. Football is played down, and U.S.C. is actually recruiting bright students...