Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tennessee faculty members, Physicist William G. Pollard had a burning idea on his mind. One of his colleagues -a woman physicist-had just returned from a wartime job with the atomic energy program at the University of Chicago, and during the party she suddenly made an exciting suggestion. Oak Ridge, said she, had so many facilities that U.S. universities lacked. Why couldn't it be made into a permanent educational institution itself? A few months later, Pollard took a leave of absence from the University of Tennessee to devote himself to turning Oak Ridge into just that. By October...
Last week, as the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies began its sixth New Year, it was a humming campus with ten different training programs, and this week a new batch of 32 students from 19 states will arrive for special study. Some of the students are professors, some are M.D.s, some are graduates working for advanced degrees. Their fields cover everything from agriculture to biology, chemistry to cancer. In its five short years under Executive Director William Pollard, the institute has become a major mecca, not only for physicists, but for scientists of every sort...
Combine of Campuses. To get the institute started, Pollard carried a crusade to every important campus in the South, preaching the simple doctrine that "Oak...
...charter members willing to help support it, and gradually the number rose to 29. Through a central council and a board of directors these members manage the institute's affairs, share its Government-owned facilities. Says William Pollard: "We like the universities to feel that Oak Ridge is a part of their own campus...
...They had walked all the way from Dover after spending their last penny in France, but they had enough strength left to quarrel furiously-"accusing each other of having secretly washed, in violation of an implied contract between tramps." Henry James is said to have shuddered like a giant oak on finding that one of the bums was an official of the Foreign Office, the other, Chesterton's bosom friend and distinguished literary colleague, Mr. Hilaire Belloc...