Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Roger Smith as Detective Jeff Spencer boasts a keener private eye than most...
Asked why he is resigning, Wright gives a forthright reply. Smith plans to open a large-scale fund raising campaign soon and at 58, Wright considers, "I have about seven or eight productive years ahead of me.... I don't want to devote my next seven or eight years to money-raising...
Rather than press Smith's more than 30,000 alumnae for funds, Wright looks forward to resuming the work of scholarship. He points, however, to the success of his administration in wiping out Smith's deficit and tripling the endowment, and maintains that "I've done my share in money-raising...
...looking back over his ten-year administration at Smith, Wright reveals his bias in favor of scholarship, noting with the greatest satisfaction his extremely active role in attempting to bolster the College faculty. In the quest for the "ablest young people... we could find," Wright personally interviewed all prospective faculty members, always "trying to size people up--trying to determine whether they would make good teachers...
...upshot of these efforts is that today, Wright insists, the Smith faculty is, excluding Radcliffe, "either first or right among the top group of all the women's colleges. In the four major departments [English, Art, History, and Government] it stands right...