Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Pitt's trustees picked Litchfield in the summer of 1955, they were well aware that the university needed a face lifting. Though it had long been doing a competent job, it was, in comparison with other U.S. campuses, a mediocre place in danger of stagnation. Restless and indefatigable, Litchfield taught political science at the University of Michigan, at 33 became General Lucius Clay's civil-administration director in Germany. Later, he took over the Governmental Affairs Institute, a nonprofit research organization, and as a dean at Cornell University, he made the Graduate School of Business and Public...
...Good Enough. He has certainly been frank about Pitt. "Our teaching," says he, "is not as good as it should be. In fact, some of it is poor. Also our research is not as good as it should be. There have been many bad comments about our dearth of research." Except for medicine, none of the university's eleven professional schools is in the front rank, and in spite of Pitt's traditional emphasis on engineering, it lags far behind its neighbor Carnegie Tech as a technological school. Adds Litchfield: "Our humanities and natural sciences are fairly strong...
Furthermore, says Litchfield, Pitt's library is in wretched shape. While Harvard spends $192 on books per student, Pitt spends only $17. The scholarship program is below par, and there is a shortage of housing. Meanwhile, the university suffers from a severe case of provincialism: only 4% of its 18,000 full-and part-time students come from outside the state...
...where Lillian Russell was married, and is turning it into a new student social center. It also has the seven Schenley apartment buildings, which will become dormitories. Litchfield has given his faculty a 10% raise, cut from 28 to nine the number of officers reporting to him directly, given Pitt its most streamlined administration in its 169-year history...
...record of seven successful bowl games was going on the line against Pitt's hungry Panthers, but Bobby Dodd, professionally casual coach of Georgia Tech's unbeaten Yellow Jackets, saw no reason to get steamed up about his trip to Jacksonville for the 'Gator Bowl game last week. As usual, he let his boys horse around in practice; as usual, he promised them that all they had to do to win was play for the breaks and trust in Dodd...