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...base on which to build the New World republic was one characterized by democracy and equality. The tragedy of this republic was that as long as human slavery existed its base had a fallacy that made it both incongruous and specious." So writes this year's visiting William Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, and only an occasional reader will sense that John Hope Franklin is himself a descendant of slaves. "I have maintained my objectivity," says Franklin, "but it takes some doing...
When Fordham played powerhouse Pittsburgh to a 0-0 standoff in 1936. Lombardi put on a tremendous one-man show: he helped stop Pitt's deepest drive with a key tackle at the Fordham four, and his crashing blocks punched holes in the massive Pittsburgh line. "We had a play on which I was supposed to trap the Pitt tackle." recalls Lombardi. "It worked fine, so our quarterback kept calling...
...from the loss of its early-season No. 1 ranking: a hard-fought, 14-7 victory over previously undefeated Wisconsin. Aided by a 15-yd. slugging penalty, Ohio State marched 57 yds. in eight plays for the winning fourth-quarter touchdown. Cornell downed Princeton, 35-34, and Navy beat Pitt, 32-9, in major upsets, but most top teams had little trouble: Dartmouth trounced Harvard, 24-6; Southern California beat Illinois, 28-16; Alabama routed Tulsa, 35-6; Michigan State walloped Indiana, 26-8; Auburn edged Clemson...
Litchfield diagnosed Pitt as an "under-administered" campus split into 27 faculty sheikdoms. He organized an overriding ten-man "cabinet," including four vice chancellors. He launched a "vertical reorganization of the disciplines"-Litch-fieldese for uniting humanities, natural and social science as units serving all levels of the university. He weighed and tested the faculty for academic content, found one-third (250) substandard, including 16% with only a B.A. degree. The "low" men got no more raises. Today, with a 19% bigger faculty, 38% higher pay, and the first sabbaticals ever, only 42 profs are under par. The others...
...plus side, Litchfield has drastically raised entrance standards, created dormitories that changed Pitt's provincial student body from 96% Pennsylvanians to 75% now. The history department is far better; anthropology has grown from nothing to good. Last year Litchfield won faculty respect when the state legislature, which supplies 16% of Pitt's budget, scented "subversive" activities at the university. Litchfield spent $100,000 investigating the case of a professor accused of being a Communist fronter, cleared him in an eloquent brief defending Pitt's inalienable right to "free inquiry." Sensitive to criticism. Litchfield is given to hiring...