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...tall, strong blonde," a Pitzer College admissions officer scrawled enthusiastically, in summing up the qualifications of a bright and idealistic student applicant. Personal evaluations count heavily at California's intensely informal Pitzer, where the teachers lecture in shirtsleeves, barefoot girls pad into class carrying Cokes, and the janitor speaks his mind at faculty-student meetings so tumultuously democratic, says President John W. Atherton, "that the only way I can restrain myself from yelling is to walk out with great dignity." Destruction of Innocence. Endowed by Orange Grower Russell K. Pitzer with a $1.2 million trust, the school nestles...
...Pitzer College in Southern California joins the five other independent schools allied in the Associated Colleges of Claremont. Privately endowed by Citrus Grower R. K. Pitzer, the college aims to educate women for the traditional professions, with an assist from modern electronic teaching aids. "Rather than let these girls be handicapped by watered-down versions of courses offered to men," says a Pitzer trustee, "we will let them know the cold-and the warm-facts of life...
Being dean has its rewards, but universities also need presidents. Last week: > Kenneth Sanford Pitzer, 48, was inaugurated as Rice University's third president at a three-day academic festival marking Rice's soth year and attended by 27 famed scholars, ranging from Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi through Anthropologist Margaret Mead to Hiscorian Arnold Toynbee. Pitzer had been dean of chemistry at the University of California's Berkeley campus, and before that director of research...
Citing the example of atomic reactors (furnaces), Pitzer pointed out that the first ones were built in wartime within three years. However, the job of building a reactor to produce electric power by atomic energy was delayed over a year while an "exhaustive series of preliminary studies" were conducted. He claimed that the technical ability to build the furnace was available right after the war, but top level advisors stopped...
While recommending personnel replacements for Conant and the other advisers, Pitzer stated that the A.E.C. would be better off if it put more authority in the hands of the laboratory directors and project engineers who want to see speed, and aren't concerned with questions of skepticism...