Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word got out at Northfield, Minn, one day last May: the most popular professor on the campus, Laurence McKinley Gould, would be Carleton's new president. The boys broke out red ties, and coeds donned red skirts, for Larry Gould Day. Husky, handsome Larry Gould is famed in little, rich Carleton College for his flaming collection of 150 red ties...
Both Carleton, and its new president, are like that. In the 26 years since his discharge as a World War I Army sergeant, Larry Gould has been a scholar and professor. But several times he has played hooky in the remote corners of the globe. A geologist and geographer, he went on an expedition to Greenland in 1926, to Baffin Island in 1927, and to the Antarctic in 1928 as chief scientist and second-in-command of the famed Byrd Expedition. There, with Pilot Bernt Balchen and a radioman, he nearly lost his life in a gale that...
After a 1,500-mile trek by dog team, Explorer Gould returned to write a book about it (Cold; Harcourt, Brace, 1931; $3.50). As a professor at Carleton for 13 years, Explorer Gould was known not only for his ties but for his bicycle, his cane, his way of poking sly fun at his classes...
Last week he was inaugurated as president. He hopes to condense his small college's unwieldy curriculum, substituting ten majors for the present 30-odd, on the theory that small liberal colleges spend too much time aping their big brothers, the universities. But for himself, President Gould plans no changes. He refused to move into the presidential mansion. Asked if he was through exploring, he said: "My God, I hope not. . . . Exploration ... is the physical expression of man's intellectual longing." And he will continue to wear red ties...
Just Pals. In Davenport, Iowa, Pfc. Kenneth J. Schneider and Pfc. Edwin R. Gould, who were inducted together, went overseas on the same ship, were captured at the same time, stayed in the same prison camp, were liberated on the same day, returned to the U.S. on the same ship, arrived home on the same train, finally were discharged at the same time with the same number of points...