Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of Few's stature, the university met derision from the start. Some wag suggested that it change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Eruditio, Religio et Cherooto et Cigaretto. Under Few's less able successor, President Robert L. Flowers, the situation grew worse: though Duke was already beginning to build up a solid faculty, its reputation as a playboy's haven lived on. It was not until 1949, when rangy (6 ft. 2½ in.) Arthur Hollis Edens took over, that it began to come back into...
...control had been so tight that the university had become "unquestionably the lengthened shadow of President Byrd." As a result, said the association, there was a tendency on the part of facultymen to "shrug off" responsibility and for departments to suffer from "sterility and lack of ferment." In spite of much improvement since it was last inspected in 1935, the Medical School was in many respects 15 years behind the times. Its facilities were overcrowded, its salaries "definitely low," its library "grossly inadequate." As a matter of fact, almost every library at the university was a scandal. The English Department...
Among the cases the association cited: ¶ A physical-education student who, in spite of credits earned for passing examinations in "Varsity Sports," was dropped after his freshman year in 1949, was readmitted the next fall even though he did not report for make-up summer school. Then he flunked out again, only to be readmitted in 1953. ¶ Another physical-education student who flunked out as a freshman in January 1953 but was promptly readmitted in February. His best subjects: Phys. Ed. 123 ("Coaching Basketball") and Phys. Ed. 125 ("Coaching Football"), ¶ A football co-captain who, in spite...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, a Harvardman asked John Ely Burchard, now M.I.T.'s dean of humanities and social studies: "How did you persuade Winston to speak to those steam fitters of yours?" As Burchard well knew, there was a mite of truth in the joke, in spite of mighty efforts already made to broaden the humanities curriculum. Was the nation's top technical school still giving its students too narrow an education? Last week the M.I.T. faculty formally approved a new experiment that may eventually answer the question...
...spite of the Mississippi Legislature's earnest enactments a few days ago of legislation calculated to actually begin equalization of educational facilities, there is no implication of any breakdown of segregation. This same Legislature last fall appointed a recess committee on education to spend the summer seeking legal means for evading the court decision before actual implementation of the decision is ordered. Other Southern legislative groups have appointed similar bodies to explore methods of legally putting off what the court clearly intended as its ultimate purpose. Intelligent men are working on these plans and it is unrealistic to believe that...