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Main job of a State university president is to handle his State Legislature. Big, blond, booming Robert Gordon Sproul, 48, an ambitious executive and politician-president of the University of California, who recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics...
...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...
...Give me time to think it over," said Dr. Sproul...
Complicating his decision was the fact that, as everyone knew, ambitious Dr. Sproul, who became comptroller of the university at 29, its vice president at 34 and its youngest president at 39, nine years ago, had political aspirations, had been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for Governor or U. S. Senator, even bigger jobs. Would a university presidency be a springier board for a political leap than a bank presidency...
...night last week 5,000 California students gathered on the campus, waved torches and placards, marched behind a band and cheer leaders to President Sproul's square old mansion: "We want Sproul!" they chanted. Soon, with his arms around his wife and his mother, President Sproul appeared on a second-floor balcony...