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...tenths of 1% of the population (v. 2% in the U.S.), it has more than doubled since 1948, to 103,000; in four years, it may hit 175,000. "Oxbridge" has opened few doors. Shouldering almost the entire weight of the new students are Britain's 15 "redbrick" universities, the shirtsleeve provincial schools that got their name from the red bricks with which most of them were built when they began as seedy local colleges in the late 19th century...
...girl (Diane Brewster) tries to go beyond her station on the well-known Main Line. She marries into one of the very best families, but on her wedding night discovers that the blue blood has run pathetically thin. Frightened and confused, she flies back to the arms of her redbrick-Irish boyfriend (Brian Keith) and soon finds herself with child. She also finds herself without a husband: he smashes up his car and is killed. Coldly refusing to marry the man she really loves, she informs him that she is going to raise his son (Paul Newman) as though...
Less than a mile from the Allan on Pine Avenue towers the new ten-story, redbrick pile of Montreal General Hospital. Here Director Albert Edward Moll of the Psychiatry Division has carried the half-day hospital principle to its logical conclusion: a compact space at the west end of the fourth floor is a day hospital by day and a night hospital by night. Its 15 beds serve day-hospital patients in much the same way as the Allan unit. But at 4:30 p.m. the day patients leave. At 5:30 the night patients begin to arrive from their...
Today, under Horace Mann Bond, its first Negro president, Lincoln spreads out over 275 acres of campus, farm and woodland. Its 15 buildings are an architectural assortment ("You might call them Honest Redbrick or Grotesque Style," says one professor), but they house a first-rate liberal-arts college as well as one of the top Negro seminaries. Though Lincoln has no other professional schools, its alumni account for 17% of U.S. Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus...
...enough money were received, the redbrick building would be reopened and department of geography started up along the lines suggested by a faculty committee in 1949. That committee recommended that a department oriented towards regional studies rather than exploration be set up, but the University rejected the idea for lack of money...