Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This grant fits into the rapid expansion all over the country of International Legal Studies since the war," King said. Simultaneously with Harvard's grant, the Ford Foundation gave Columbia, Stanford and Michigan $2,600,000 for similar projects...
...studying a special problem, like the refugee situation, in either India or Turkey, and then returning to their university to write a thesis and receive credit. A young farmer from Ohio described living with an Indian farm family for two months under the International Farm Youth Exchange. A Stanford student explained a program of "reverse exchange" by which foreign students take up undergraduate programs here and live in college derms...
Last week, as the result of some diligent sleuthing by Professor James N. Tidwell of San Diego State College, the Stanford University Press was able to show the public The Lion of the West for the first time. Tidwell began his search for it in 1947 simply because he thought it might contain the origin of the phrase "up the salt river," meaning "to defeat a man politically." He collected everything he could on Actor Hackett's tours. He scoured the libraries of the Allegheny region, checked with rare-book dealers. Finally a colleague gave him an idea...
...West Coast address. Born in Bremen, Germany 44 years ago. Schriever became a U.S. citizen in 1923, graduated from Texas A. & M. in 1931, enlisted as an air cadet, left the service to become a Northwest Airlines pilot, returned in 1938 to be a test pilot, went to Stanford for mechanical engineer training. During the war he became top maintenance man of the Far East Air Forces...
...allowed to play more than two games away from home. In 1949, however, one did so anyway. In direct opposition to the regulations of the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports, the squad not only played Columbia and Yale there, but it flew cross country to return an engagement with Stanford. Although the Crimson lost, 44 to 0, it defended it excess travelling on the grounds that the game was played before school actually opened...