Word: penn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania men ate 75 other simultaneous "worldwide dinners," the 4,000 diners in Philadelphia, one of the largest groups of people ever to sit down to table in one place, proceeded pensively to consume two tons of meat and drink and some food for thought. It was distressing to Penn men to be reminded that their university, which boasts nine firsts* and over 15,000 students, ranks sixteenth in U. S. university endowments.† To alter this state of affairs, Penn's President Thomas Sovereign Gates was thereupon launching a drive for $12,500,000 more endowment...
President Gates also gained attention for the university with the Gates plan for de-emphasizing varsity athletics (by employing only teacher-coaches and encouraging intramural sports), enforcement of a rule against drinking in fraternity houses, Penn sponsorship of the "Cultural Olympics" to pick the U. S. champions in music, arts & crafts, literature, drama, the dance...
...modern financing of Culture is an elaborate business, President Gates appointed as general drive chairman Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., as national alumni committee head Equitable Life's President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson. Then he hired the John Price Jones money-raising organization, which started a year ago approaching Penn's 55.000 alumni. By this week, when the campaign formally opened, $1,000,000 of the $12,500,000 had already been raised. To take three years, the drive is timed to culminate in the University's bicentennial celebration...
...means as big as many another U. S. chemical company. "Salt" has plants at Natrona, Philadelphia, Wyandotte, Mich., and Tacoma, Wash., owns a controlling interest in Taylor Chemical Corp. of Penn Yan, N. Y. "Salt" sells germicides, liquid chlorine, acidproof cement, bleaching powders, lyes, numerous other chemicals, but makes no table salt...
Peace especially visited the seven miles of tunnels, 140 miles of costly, well-constructed roadbed through the nine dark ridges of the Alleghenies. Grass overgrew "South Penn" embankments, saplings pushed their way through its rock ballast and water seeped higher and higher over the rubble of the tunnels. For half a century nothing stirred in those dark caverns except some albino, sightless trout which according to Pennsylvania Highway Planning Division's Director Kaulfuss "mysteriously developed in these unnatural, impounded waters...