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...California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody had known he would, he struck just the right note...
...Princeton, last week's academic blow-out capped what one guest, the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, called "a whole year of unremitting celebration." The fourth oldest college in the U.S. had honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...
With mixed feelings, University of California's President Robert G. Sproul called them "D.A.R.s" (Damned Average Raisers). Said Georgetown University Student John Mislan, 25, ex-ski trooper and veteran of four months' combat in Italy: "The majority of veterans are pushing their education too fast. They are running but they don't know what they are running...
...stockmarket has drifted lower & lower, Wall Streeters have hoped that margin requirements would be relaxed. But last week, in the annual report of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, President Allan Sproul came out against lowering present 75% stock margins (75% of the purchase price must be cash...
Wall Streeters, who regard Sproul as one of them, were dismayed to find him backing up FRB Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, whose high-margin policy is cordially hated...