Word: sproul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Campbell swayed, tottered. "I am not well," he gasped. Colleagues supported him off the platform, carried him out of the stadium and away from the last commencement exercises at which he will ever officiate. President Campbell will retire June 30; his place will be taken by Robert Gordon Sproul, 39, class of 1913, comptroller of the university. Mr. Sproul will become the second-youngest great university president in the land...
...wanted to see alert, big-voiced Comptroller Sproul, he might be found busy at the university's work on the oak-grown Berkeley campus, or among the broad vineyards at Kearney, or in the fat fields of Davis. As it was when he was comptroller, his task as president will be the administration of a $60,000,000 plant whose holdings include over 13,000 acres, whose annual income is $11,000,000 from state, federal and private sources?California's biggest cultural investment...
Unlike his predecessor, President-Elect Sproul is no schoolman, no scholar, no holder of learned degrees. His business, which he entered the year he graduated from the institution, is the commerce of education...
Other X supporters: Dr. John Jackson of Greenwich (England) Observatory. who at first was a doubter; Dr. John Anthony Miller of Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College...