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...financed a few scholarships and professorships, a set of research projects related to their own work. Some feared that to do more would bring howls of protest from stock holders; others wondered frankly about their legal right to give. Gradually, under the prodding of such men as Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Irving S. Olds, Laird Bell and Frank Abrams, U.S. businessmen began to realize that 1) higher education is industry's best hope for talent, and 2) industry is higher education's best hope for funds...
GHOST ON HORSEBACK, THE INCREDIBLE ATATURK (408 pp.)-Ray Brock-Duell Sloan & Pearce...
...difficulty of preserving the famed Dartmouth esprit d' corps is perhaps less immediately serious, but more difficult to resolve. Dartmouth officials hope that by making the school itself more appealing, they can keep students in Hanover--safely. To this end, President John Sloan Dickey began a $5,000,000 fund drive in 1946, which included among its objects the building of an elaborate student union. This would have featured bowling alleys, game rooms, and lounges; but the primary objection from a student view-point was succinctly expressed by a cynical undergraduate who asked; "It won't have any girls, will...
Also to be honored are four Eastern college presidents: John Sloan Dickey, Dartmouth; Charles W. Cole, Amherst; Victor L. Butterfield, Wesleyan; and James Phinney Baxter, Williams...
...looked upon as ideal-such weapons as X ray or radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April 20, 1953). The results so far, said the institute...