Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report embodies many of the President's specific proposals: discussion courses, a two-year reading list, auditing lectures suggested by advisors, and a senior essay or project climaxed by oral and written examinations at the end of the senior year, but rejects Griswold's basic plan of giving the student practically complete freedom...
Buck comes to his position with unquestioned qualifications. He has twice served as acting president, once when President Conant was working on the Manhattan Project, and once when the Corporation was choosing a successor to the newly-appointed High Commissioner of Germany. He is known privately as the man who resigned to give the new president a free hand, the last man to fill the powerful office of Provost. A popular professor who gives a course in the history of the South, he is also a gifted administrator to whom President Pusey offered a position at the first possible opportunity...
Huang has been working on steroid research with Louis F. Floser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and hopes to complete the project before leaving...
...weighs 282 lbs. and is outsized only by his own voice. As the salaried head of the area's Boy Scout Council, and as a businessman (he is a member of 17 boards of directors), part-time lawyer, landlord (he has an interest in a Caracas, Venezuela apartment project), farmer and cattleman (he owns 5,000 acres in Missouri and Oklahoma), educator (he was president of Missouri Valley College at Marshall), civic leader and public speaker (some 200 speeches a year at fees ranging up from $1,000). Bartle is all over the place. Last week Kansas citizens bowed...
...Chicago's lakeside Gold Coast last week, builders broke ground for a pair of "glass cities." Designed by Modernist Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the project consists of two 29-story skyscrapers on one site, four 28-story structures about a mile away. The six buildings, clad in aluminum and tinted glass, will have 1,283 apartments, offer such luxury features as airconditioning, soundproof walls, double-oven kitchen ranges, and valet service. Rentals will range from $100 (for one room, dressing room, kitchenette and bath) to $700 (for a twelve-room apartment). To be built in 18 months...