Word: fordham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Methodist, young Jack Morrison refused to enroll there, said "I want to make good on my own." At Vanderbilt, he made the freshman team. Last year, when Morrison Senior went to Vanderbilt to coach, young Jack switched to Southern Methodist. Last week, benched by an ankle broken in the Fordham game the week before, young Morrison watched Southern Methodist beat Vanderbilt...
...Other major football scores last week: Alabama 7, Mississippi State 0; Army 27, Columbia 16; California 7, Oregon State 0; Fordham 7, Southern Methodist 0; Michigan State 7, Carnegie Tech 0; Navy 35, Virginia 14; Oregon 7, Stanford 7; Pitt 6, Ohio State 0; Purdue 35, Wisconsin 14; Southern California 24, Illinois 6; Yale 7, Penn 0; Holy Cross 7, Dartmouth...
...polygraph who tells an untruth supposedly registers changes in blood pressure, pulse and respiration which are indicated by a needle jiggling on a graph. Tested last week in Manhattan was another such instrument-the psychogalvanometer. The invention of tall, burly Father Walter G. Summers, S.J., Ph.D., head of Fordham University's department of psychology, the psychogalvanometer works not on the heart and lungs but on the minute electrical currents coursing through the body...
Although most Jesuits, after 13 years of secluded study, have left home and family well behind, many a New Yorker recognized Fordham's new head as a native. Son of the late President Frank Stanislaus Gannon of Norfolk Southern R. R., slim, curly-headed Father Gannon has been a Jesuit for 23 of his 43 years. No stranger to Fordham, he taught there as a scholastic, directed student dramatics, organized a play shop. After his ordination he studied educational methods at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge, Perugia, Louvain. In 1930 the Jesuit Father General sent him to reopen St. Peter...
After grace and handshakings President Gannon entered on his duties. With 7,300 students, Fordham has outgrown its grassy 75-acre campus in The Bronx, spilled over into four floors of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Promptly the new president announced that sprawling Fordham had finished its era of expansion, would concentrate on extracurricular activities to enrich campus life, bring students and faculty closer together. Said he: "Having a big registration is nothing to boast about. We won't add a single student to the rolls during the next six years...