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Word: jesup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queens. On the surface the 70-acre, pine-and-palm-dotted campus, overlooking the Mediterranean, seems as placidly calm as a New England college. Sturdy, ivy-covered buildings, bearing the names of the university's pioneers and benefactors-Dodge, Post, Jesup, West-are flanked by the gleaming modern new engineering building and library. Though the university is largely supported by U.S. oil-company donations and grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, plus $1,000,000 a year from the U.S. Government for scholarships, it is so scrupulous of its impartiality that it gives only one course in American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Out of Their Own Visions | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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