Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive for adjournment hit hidden shoals, however, when the $10 billion supplemental appropriations bill came out of a House-Senate conference still carrying a House rider which would cut atomic-energy funds in half and seriously restrict construction of new atomic installations. Rising to the attack, Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, in a surprising burst of stirring and statesmanlike oratory, warned that the rider would blunt the U.S. atomic-energy program at a critical stage. Passionately, he demanded that the bill be sent back to conference for another try at removal of the rider...
...University of Iowa senior Bowen Stass-forth, who clipped more than three seconds off the Olympic 200-meter breaststroke mark to finish...
...interests are anything but scientific. "We teach," says he, "and as a university always will teach the physical sciences . . . But our unique concentration of power focuses upon those things which concern men and women as men and "women." Hancher calls these things "humanology," and in the last twelve years Iowa has seen quite a bit of that...
Even before the famed Harvard Report (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945), Hancher was busy remodeling his curriculum, slashing away the hodgepodge of vocational courses in favor of a broad and solid liberal arts program ("What our cultural life needs today is more general practitioners"). He strengthened Iowa's flourishing school of fine arts, started a library where undergraduates for the first time could browse at will. Though he never neglected his budget (he tripled his appropriation to more than $10,000,000), or his plant (he established a full-fledged college of nursing, built a communications center, a hospital-school...
Calmness & Assurance. Over the years, Iowa and its ten colleges have climbed to high rank in the Midwest. More important, the university, under Hancher, is one of the boldest crusaders against the vocationalism that plagues U.S. state universities. "Somewhere," Hancher tells his students, "the art of contemplation has been lost...An occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art . . . They possess an integrity, a calm and assurance, a wholeness of mind and body that is a kind of holiness. This wholeness, this holiness, I crave...