Word: rolla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOUISE LAURENZ Rolla...
Associate Professor of English University of Missouri Rolla...
...Your statement, "Another campus in Rolla . . . was created out of a school of mines and metallurgy" [Feb. 4], must surely be nominated as TIME'S understatement of the year. You missed a significant part of "Missouri's Upward Reach." The University of Missouri at Rolla is the largest undergraduate engineering and physical-science school west of the Mississippi, sixth largest in the nation. Founded in 1870 as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, it has long had departments in civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and geological engineering, mathematics, chemistry and physics, as well as ceramics, mining and metallurgy...
...HEIMAN Associate Director The University of Missouri at Rolla Rolla...
...growth. It took over the impoverished private University of Kansas City in 1963, made it a coequal university campus with schools of dentistry, pharmacy and music. It elevated a St. Louis junior college to similar status, will convert it to a four-year curriculum this fall. Another campus in Rolla, which is about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis in the Ozarks, was created out of a school of mines and metallurgy...