Word: kleinsmid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.C., popular Fred Fagg succeeds domineering old Rufus von KleinSmid, who in his later years has antagonized most of his faculty. But in his day Rufus von KleinSmid had been something of an administrator too: he had expanded U.S.C.'s cramped campus into a 55-acre plant with 12,000 students and one of the fattest ($12,000,000) annual budgets among U.S. universities...
...They formed up behind the boys' choir. Carrying burning tapers, the procession marched into the jammed court and up toward the velvet-draped bier. After a short scripture reading, the choir began to sing Mrs. Bond's The Hand of You. Then white-maned Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Chancellor of the University of Southern California, began the "narration:" "No vote of critics, no surge of publicity can elect a composer to the shrine reserved for those who write our folk music. Only the voices of the hearts of the people may choose the candidate for this honor...
When Dr. von KleinSmid had finished, Dr. Eaton arose, and taking a crown of laurel from a page boy, began to intone the "pronouncement" Said...
Four months ago, Von KleinSmid reported to California's Board of Education that the "scale" for full professors was from $4,200 to $7,500. Comparing their salary figures at a January protest meeting, 200 faculty members discovered that full professors averaged only $3,600, and that one (a woman) made only $2,600. Von KleinSmid thereupon granted some raises, which the faculty committee calls "utterly inadequate...
During Von KleinSmid's era, U.S.C. had a crack football team which made the Rose Bowl nine times, a campus which expanded from five acres to 50, and a plant which grew from three to 22 buildings, costing $16 million. Said the committee tartly: "The university's future ... is more dependent upon the dignity, respect and morale of its faculty than it is upon buildings. . . ." The U.S.C. trustees would see what could be done...