Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college, Pennsylvania State University has grown into the 6th largest (15,400 students) of the nation's 69 land-grant* colleges-with research achievements to match, e.g., in diesel engineering, low temperature studies, corn hybridization. Last week, with scarcely a backward look or a sigh of nostalgia, Penn State briskly marked its 100th year of growth with a day-long celebration...
...hand to dedicate a new $300,000 nuclear reactor for research, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss termed the instrument "truly magnificent and versatile," but warned Penn State to instill in its pupils the will to peace or "there may be no second centennials." To clear up the "endless confusion" caused by its switch from college to university status over a year ago, Penn State officially changed its address from State College. Pa., to University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania's Governor George M. Leader presented his respects: "I look upon the university as one of the main sources...
...chapel dedicated to his late wife, Helen Eakin Eisenhower, who died last summer (TIME, July 19). From Washington came brotherly congratulations from Dwight Eisenhower: "Naturally I am proud . . . both as a citizen who is interested in the continuous progress of our institutions of learning and as a brother of Penn State's president...
...Stoughton and Taunton, Mass.; Jack Bagdade of Wigglesworth and Detroit; James E. Buck of Straus and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Nicholas J. Demerath of Wigglesworth and Chapel Hill N.C.; George A. Haslotis of Hollis and Boston; Michael A. Kornfield of Grays and Hempstead, N.Y.; Alan Leavitt of Hollis and Hanover, Penn.; James H. Manshan of Weld and Madelia. Minn.; Gregory B. Stone of Grays and Boise, Idaho; and David M. Ziegenhagen of Hollis and Minneapolis...
Cornell has moved more slowly than Yale or Penn, but the "Big Red" Athletic Director Robert Kane believes that eventually the new Ivy Leagues in all sports will end distinctions between majors and minors...