Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come now, it is all right to praise the University of Iowa (TIME, Sept. 6], but do you need to treat Iowa State College so cavalierly? By saying, "those of its citizens who want only a practical education are either drained off to Iowa State College in Ames or simply stay down on the farm," you make Iowa State sound like a one-horse (or cow) institution. Actually, it is among the very finest in the country in engineering, home economics, chemistry and physics...
Congratulations on your wonderful coverage of a wonderful university in your Sept. 6 issue. Alumni of the State University of Iowa are justifiably proud of its fine record as well as that of its president, Virgil Hancher, and it was with a tremendous thrill that we read your article...
RICHARD W. PETERSON Council Bluffs, Iowa...
Died. Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner, 83, one of the two most powerful forces in American football history (the other: Notre Dame's Knute Rockne), originator of the unbalanced line, the single wing, the double wing in his 45 years of coaching at Iowa State, Georgia, Carlisle, Pittsburgh, Cornell, Stanford, Temple (see SPORT...
...Iowa State College last week, some 800 delegates, claiming to represent 800,000 U.S. college undergraduates, wound up the annual congress of the U.S. National Student Association. In ten days of argument and discussion, resolutions and amendments, one thing was clear: there was not a wild eye in the house. The N.S.A., born in 1947 to a rough and tumble fight over controversial issues (e.g., racial discrimination, banning of Communist teachers, etc.) had gone conservative, in expression even more than in politics...