Word: stoddard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois festival is just one of the new ideas that have been making the university hum since 1946. The man behind the hum is President George D. (for Dinsmore) Stoddard...
...Good Monument. President Stoddard arrived at Urbana just as the tidal wave of ex-G.I.s began. He thought he knew their frame of mind. "They were like a lot of men coming to see a monument," he says. "They would have been glad to see any monument at all, but we decided that we would show them a good monument...
...Stoddard insisted that every department re-examine its courses. Moreover, though enrollments have more than doubled, to 24,394, he wanted classes kept small (ideal: no more than 30 students). To keep classes small, Stoddard more than doubled the faculty, and brought in some top men while he was about it. Among them: Physicist Louis Ridenour of the University of Pennsylvania, Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy of Northwestern, Pianist Soulima (son of Igor) Stravinsky. Stoddard set up a new department of preventive medicine and public health, an institute, of public affairs and an institute of labor and industrial relations...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m. NBC-TV). I'm Still Alive, with Burgess Meredith and Haila Stoddard. ^ Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Contralto Marian Anderson...
...Hollywood's vigilant COMPO (Council of Motion Picture Organizations) got out a booklet quoting some 56 sociologists and psychiatrists to the effect that movies are not really responsible for juvenile delinquency. Sample dubious boost for the industry, from University of Illinois President George Stoddard: "There is little evidence that the motion picture has much effect upon the behavior of children. When a healthy high-school boy chooses to spend three hours on a sunny Saturday in a world of make-believe, the trouble is not with the motion picture but in the quality of home and neighborhood life...