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When scholarly, bush-haired Harold Walter Stoke took over as president of Louisiana State University in 1947, he came as a man with a mission: he wanted to raise L.S.U.'s academic reputation to the level of the lavish $41 million campus that Huey Long had helped to build. For a while, it seemed as if he might succeed in doing just that (TIME...
...years, Harold Stoke found that his reforms did not always win applause. From the start, he aroused some of his deans by taking away their arbitrary right to hire & fire faculty members, and by giving the faculty a louder voice in university affairs. Some Louisianans disliked him because he was a Yankee (his last job: president of the University of New Hampshire), and because he tried to hire professors from outside the state...
...trying to rid L.S.U. of what he called its "candy and cake" atmosphere, President Stoke found himself bogged down in scores of minor squabbles. He had to worry about campus traffic regulations and cutting down the number and speed of student convertibles ("We must decide whether we want to be a university or a country club"). He fought with Athletic Director T. P. ("Red") Heard, who wanted to enlarge the football stadium, while Stoke aimed to put football in its place as "just another university activity...
...Houston, rough, tough Oilman Glenn McCarthy is known as a man with plenty of irons in the fire and plenty of greenbacks to stoke it. He had built the $21 million Shamrock Hotel, put millions of his own and borrowed money into chemical plants, a radio station, oilfields, natural gas, real estate. But last week many a Houston citizen blinked in surprise. Glenn McCarthy had asked RFC for a $70 million loan...
...lordship, Stoke is "an exciting experiment"-the end of his lifelong dream to give a university education to all the John Elkins of Britain. "Some have told me," says he, "that ... I am proposing to put a lever under a rock which has stood in one place for a great many years. Well, then, at my age, I cannot afford to wait too long...