Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honored in Boston: Broadway Actress Ruth Gordon. On the Ritz-Carlton dessert list appeared a Coupe Rath Gordon...
...California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody had known he would, he struck just the right note...
That night Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with jowl) put on a boiled shirt and shook hands with 3,000 of his new charges at a party in the women's gymnasium. Next day he and Mrs. Sproul boarded the streamlined Southern Pacific Lark for the second of his eight campuses, Cal's jealous younger sister, the University of California at Los Angeles, to go through the routine again. He still had a long way to go" to cover all his domain. Says Bob Sproul: "Sure it's tough, but I do it purposely. I do it with...
...Lonely. In the overflowing, far-flung University of California, just about the only thing its thousands of students have in common is Robert Gordon Sproul. The lonely bigness of Berkeley helps to explain why the Cal rooting section* at football games is not only the world's largest but at times its most raucous. Undergraduates sometimes blow off steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year...
...democracy's: Who is entitled to go to college? One answer is, everyone who can afford to; but that is an answer that does not satisfy even wealthy and independent universities. Another answer is that every boy & girl in the U.S. should be given a college education. Robert Gordon Sproul does not agree. Practically everyone in the U.S. wants a college education, he says, and now, with inexpensive state universities* and the Government passing out millions of dollars under the G.I. Bill of Rights, practically everybody can get one. But, he adds, "large numbers of students [are] not properly...