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Word: oxbow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boasts a $1,000,000 theater for drama students, a $2,000,000 science building, the championship football team of the Far Western Conference and 300 foreign students. S.F. teaches everything from engineering to skindiving. Most impressive feature: a topflight creative writing department including Novelist Walter van Tilburg (The Oxbow Incident) Clark. Another noted facultyman: Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Master Planner | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

Good schools come in all sizes. Occidental College (1,400 students), a tranquil oasis in hurly-burly Los Angeles, grabbed two of the Southwest's four Rhodes scholarships last year. One of the country's best creative-writing departments, headed by Novelist Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Oxbow Incident), is run by giant (11,000 students) San Francisco State College. And what about Virginia's tiny (400 men) Hampden-Sydney College? It tops all U.S. colleges in percentage of graduates with doctorates in physics, and is tenth in percentage of graduates listed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes Good Nerves | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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