Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enrollment at UMass may very well soon equal that of midwestern state universities, but Mather contends that his college will never become as football conscious or intellectually weak as some of those institutions. His attitude toward intercollegiate football is, in fact, considerably less favorable than the Massachusetts student body and athletic staff would probably like...
...Huddled with G.O.P. state chairmen from 19 Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states (see The Campaign...
...after the sun got up to mile-high Denver one morning last week, the President of the U.S. sat down to have a big helping of politics for breakfast. In the presidential suite of the Brown Palace Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower ate and advised with Republican state chairmen from 19 Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states. The subject under discussion: how to increase the Republican majority in Congress. The breakfast-eaters started from the proposition that the key man in the Republican campaign of 1954 is Dwight Eisenhower. Said Ohio's able Chairman Ray Bliss: "The big problem in our areas...
...January, after 18 years as U. of M. president, to run for governor on the Democratic ticket, Curly Byrd's football team (in five years, 43 victories, six defeats) was the nation's best. The university had been transformed from a small agricultural school into a sprawling, Midwestern-style campus with 25,000 students, a host of professional schools and thriving branches (for the armed forces) on four continents...
...prairie, meanwhile, came poets, novelists and painters (among them: Iowa-born Grant Wood). The university began a representative collection of modern American canvases, and its auditoriums began to echo with new music. Largely through the influence of Psychologist Carl Seashore, S.U.I, took on the arts wholesale, and with typical Midwestern hospitality proceeded to make them right at home. It was one of the first universities to hit upon the idea that a novel, poem or painting could be as worthy of an advanced degree as even the most scholarly thesis...