Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the next major changes initiated by the Survey will probably take place. In the past five years, however, more emphasis has been placed on the College of Arts and Sciences. This fall, for the first time, freshmen in the College outnumber Wharton matriculatants, and Admissions Director Robert H. Pitt II predicts that the balance of the entire University will eventually shift toward Arts and Sciences...
...With Pitt as the guiding hand, the University's admissions program has expanded its scope and thoroughness. For decades, Penn was little more than a state college, drawing a huge proportion of its enrollment from Philadelphia and surrounding areas. In relatively recent time, commuters made up 40 per cent of the undergraduate population. Now they number only 17 per cent of the student body, and the decline is due to more than the construction of new dormitories. The University now draws men from a wider geographical range than ever before, thanks to its expended and still growing Admissions Traveling Program...
...irascible young man in constant pain from a kidney disease. Commissioned at 14, James Wolfe had earned a reputation as a priggish martinet who scorned wining and wenching but relished the meanest chores in his scramble for rank. He had fought well in Flanders against the French, and William Pitt the Elder recommended the stiff-necked young major general to run the siege of Quebec, France's major stronghold in America...
With characteristic bluntness, the University of Pittsburgh's hard-driving Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield two years ago assessed his school's teaching, found it "not as good as it should be. In fact, some of it is poor." Since then, Pitt's faculty has been strengthened, and its salaries have been raised. Last week Chancellor Litchfield announced a gift that should do much to realize the university's aim of excellence: $12 million, the great bulk of it to be spent for teaching and graduate study, presented by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. Breakdown...
...University of Pittsburgh's new College of the Academic Disciplines, which will help coordinate the efforts of Pitt's various schools and departments. Said Financier Paul Mellon,* Yaleman ('29) and chairman of the trust: "This grant is made with the understanding that the salaries paid to the Andrew Mellon professors will be such as to attract eminent men capable of distinguished scholarship . . . and will be commensurate with or superior to the best salaries paid in like fields in any other American university [best guess: $20,000 or more]. It is hoped that this nucleus of distinguished scholars...