Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Russell, the son of a Colorado furniture salesman, quit his engineering course at Stanford University to go to work as an S.P. timekeeper. Promoted to a $200-a-month engineering job, he asked for a 45?-an-hour laborer's job to get more track experience. Later, he took over as deputy engineer to double-track the Sierra crest, moved up steadily and, in 1952, became president...
Philip H. Rhinelander '29, until last spring Director of General Education at the College, has been tentatively appointed Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., it was learned yesterday...
Rhinelander's appointment to the post, which corresponds on the undergraduate level to that of Dean Bundy here, still requires official approval by Stanford's governing body. Stanford President John E. W. Sterling, reached in Palo Alto yesterday, said he "could not yet confirm" the appointment but disclosed that Rhinelander has visited Stanford within the past month...
...dean of the undergraduate college at Stanford, Rhinelander would be in charge of the appointments and curriculum of the undergraduate faculty. He would take an active role in the administration of Stanford's "General Education" program, which, according to President Sterling, is currently being "reviewed and revised...
While this ruling would have an obvious impact on such groups as Stanford's "Buck of the Month Club," its impact on the heavily regulated Ivy League is still uncertain. The Ivy League bans "try outs" and prohibits alumni clubs from paying travel of prospective scholar athletes to the Ivy schools. Alumni do, however, expend considerable personal and/or club funds on trips to interview the prospects in their areas. Such expenses under the new rule could no longer be exempted as contributions to charitable institutions. Expenditures of Ivy coaches are still met by the universities themselves, which are excluded from...