Word: salems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerance was not mutual. In 1636, in midwinter, he fled Salem under sentence of banishment by the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
...occasion, speak eloquently as the voice of a nation that is peace-loving and Godfearing, too. This week he did so when, as a fellow-Baptist, he addressed the ground-breaking ceremonies at the Baptists' new Wake Forest College (see EDUCATION) just outside of Winston-Salem...
...even more of an occasion for a college without a classroom or dormitory in sight. Baptist Harry Truman was there (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). So were President Gordon Gray of the University of North Carolina and thousands of other notables who had come to "Reynolda," just outside of Winston-Salem, for the ceremony. At the ripe old age of 117, Baptist Wake Forest College (enrollment: 1703) was breaking ground on its brand new campus-110 miles from its old one near Raleigh...
...walk 110 miles for a Camel five years ago, when the Zachary Smith Reynolds Foundation began pouring some of its Camel millions into education (TIME, April 22, 1946). The foundation offered the college the income from a $12,000,000 trust fund if it would move to industrial Winston-Salem. Then Charles Babcock, a Reynolds inlaw, offered a 350-acre site. Wake Forest took one look at its own puny campus (25 acres), decided to accept, and set out to raise the money on its own to build a whole new college from scratch...
Wake Forest's first-rate medical school is already in Winston-Salem. Its law school now ranks with Duke and Chapel Hill. By the time the new campus opens, in the fall of 1954, Wake Forest College hopes to change its name to "Wake Forest University...