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...only institution of higher learning in the state, anything that happens there is apt to make headlines. But not since its foundation 83 years ago have the headlines registered the bitterness they have shown in the past five years. Since he took over in 1952, President Minard W. Stout, 49, has been the center of so many political and academic storms that he now holds the distinction of being the most discussed figure in the state...
Onetime professor of education and principal of the University of Minnesota's laboratory high school, Stout has in many ways chalked up a remarkable record in Nevada. Through appropriations and bond issues, the state now gives the university three times as much money as it did in 1952. Gifts and grants are up from an average of $100,000 a year to more than $1,000,000. While only 49% of the faculty had Ph.D.s in 1952, today 65% do. Stout upped faculty salaries 68%, started a college of education, a junior college in Las Vegas, a graduate school...
Manageable Mediocrity. Stout first ran into trouble when he decided that the university should abolish entrance requirements for Nevada high-school graduates. He also did away with the Academic Council, which had played a part in forming university policy. To some faculty-men, Stout seemed not only highhanded; he also seemed a threat to academic standards. Especially critical was Biologist Frank Richardson, who in 1952 circulated among his colleagues an article by Historian Arthur Bestor Jr. attacking the brand of educational thinking that President Stout appeared to represent (TIME, June 15, 1953). To Stout, Richardson...
...roster appear such well known names as Rudolph Elie, Boston Herald columnist, William Jackson, librarian of Houghton, and Professor Norbert Weiner of M.I.T. Honorary members include mystery writer Rex Stout, and the late Christopher Morley...
...Administration hopes that even such stout defenders of Nationalist China as California's Senator William Knowland and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges can be persuaded to go along. To win approval, one important point in U.S. policy had to be re-emphasized. The move is being made only to help other Consultative Group nations ease their economic problems", but the U.S., which enforces a complete embargo on U.S. trade with Red China, will continue that embargo...