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...Illinois festival is just one of the new ideas that have been making the university hum since 1946. The man behind the hum is President George D. (for Dinsmore) Stoddard...
...clock: after a leisurely breakfast, you can be stimulated by Thornton Wilder, who is giving the second half of Humanities 2 in Sanders Theatre. Wilder, who is a renowned early breakfaster, should be in fine form by ten. Professor Levin, who used to give Hum. 2b, can be found at this hour in Harvard 4, lecturing on Proust, Joyce, and Mann in Comp. Lit. 162. You'll need a knowledge of either French or German for this one. People more addicted to the Social Sciences might well check in at Mallinckrodt MB-9 for Fainsod's lectures on Soviet Government...
...husky new schoolmaster who came to them one day in the 1830s. It was true, as one pupil later recalled, that young Walt Whitman was "always musin' an' writin', 'stead of tending to his proper dooties." Yet he seemed to love children ("what a hum of little voices! . . . How pleasant . . . How healthful!"), and children seemed to love him. He never used the rod on them, knew how to liven their lessons with poems and games...
...scientist and onetime Ohio high-school principal named Grayson L. Kirk, who arrived at Morningside Heights as an associate professor of government only ten years ago. At Columbia, Grayson Kirk soon showed that he was a first-class administrator as well as teacher, with a talent for making things hum. He threw himself into the work of the Academy of Political Science, headed Columbia's Institute of European Studies. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation staff at Dumbarton Oaks and helped set up the U.N. Security Council at San Francisco. By 1949, he had so impressed...
...Line Shudder. Bob Doherty was impressed with Tech, but he was not a man to be easily satisfied. Over the next 14 years he made Tech hum. He raised $4,000,000 to begin the first building program the school had had in years. He boosted the endowment from $17 to $30 million, tripled the size of the library, upped the number of full-time students two-thirds. Instead of a mere 27 advanced degrees a year, Carnegie Tech was soon giving...