Word: sanford
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...Stanford's faculty with a small cadre of ambitious professors who spread the gospel of Bay area living all over the East and Midwest. Instead of high pay, Stanford offered such lures as 100% loans for building handsome ranch houses on university land. To snag former Harvard Sociologist Sanford M. Dornbusch, Stanford doubled its sociology department with men of his choice. In similar deals Stanford captured American Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard after 23 years at Harvard. When the faculty...
...chairman of Cornell's English department, DeVane has been at Yale ever since he arrived as an undergraduate from South Carolina. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1920, was appointed assistant professor when he received his Ph.D. in 1926, and returned from Cornell in 1938 as Emily Sanford professor of English literature as well as dean of Yale College. A first-rate scholar of Browning and Tennyson, the new dean became equally expert on faculty and curriculum, quietly carved out the reports and studies that have served as the basis for undergraduate education at Yale-and many another college...
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...
Holding the Yanks to an average of just 2.66 runs per game, Jack Sanford and company pitched well enough to justify a senior circuit victory under almost any other set of circumstances. In fact, Giant hurlers performed so well that their mates actually outscored New York overall, 21 runs...
...Willie Mays in his massive arms, hoisted him on a table and poured champagne in his ear. Then the bone-weary Giants flew off to San Francisco to play the cool, efficient Yankees in the World Series-and baseball was back to Dullsville. Yankee Whitey Ford and Giant Jack Sanford turned in masterful pitching performances, and after 18 cool, efficient innings, the series was even at one game apiece...