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...Campus Renaissance." Then a small institution with a faculty of 29, and an annual budget of around $500,000, the Stanford business school could hardly claim a topnotch national reputation. Now, while admitting that Harvard Business School "is still No. 1 in prestige," Arbuckle claims that "our students are every bit as good as theirs, and so is our faculty...
...sloop that Bus sailed in 1950-thereby launching one of the most phenomenal winning streaks in U.S. yachting history. The International skippers whom Bus took on that summer were the elite of U.S. racing: Arthur Knapp, regarded as the best sailor to windward in the business; Bill Luders, a topnotch helmsman and naval architect; and Shields-the very man who had introduced the International to the U.S. 14 years before.-Bus beat them all-that year, the next, the next, the next, the next, the next, the next, and the next. Since the Internationals are one-design boats, each presumably...
Ramsey W. Hall, 26, son of a North Carolina judge, was a topnotch graduate student in English at Nashville's Vanderbilt University. He was a big man, 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 Ibs., and as far as anyone knew he was gentle and re strained. One night last January he went berserk: three policemen tried to subdue him. Ever since, Nashville has been up in arms over the fact that in the subsequent fight he was killed by the police...
...overnight restored its long-tarnished reputation for football excellence, Ara Parseghian (TIME cover, Nov. 20, 1964) is an intense, electric insomniac who works 18-hour days, delights in locker-room oratory, and hates anything dull, especially dull football. He has always had a knack for developing topnotch passers and receivers-"probably," cracks Navy Coach Bill Elias, "because his ancestors got practice catching figs that fell out of trees." At Northwestern, Ara produced Flanker Paul Flatley (now with the Minnesota Vikings) and Quarterback Tommy Myers (Pittsburgh Steelers); at Notre Dame in 1964, it was Quarterback Huarte and End Jack Snow...
Vast universities offer great libraries, star teachers and topnotch research facilities - but often at a high cost in impersonality and student loneliness. Tiny colleges offer the warmth and human values of close relationships - but often at a high cost in academic shortcomings. To get the best of both of these worlds is the purpose of a promising pattern of university student-grouping that will be tested or expanded on at least a dozen campuses when classes convene this month...