Word: tougaloo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better or worse the gadfly breeze of Cambridge intellectual life is riffling through blissful, moss-draped trees of Mississippi's Tougaloo College, thanks to a group of Harvard faculty members and graduate students...
...University of Michigan and Tuskegee Institute, in a wider collaboration, are reforming Tuskegee's curriculum in biology, chemistry, engineering and veterinary medicine. Last week Rhode Island's prosperous Brown University and Mississippi's Tougaloo College announced the most ambitious "big brother" arrangement...
...Cancer College." The Tougaloo campus, just outside Jackson, is an old Faulknerian plantation dotted with moss-hung oaks. A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building. It is the only integrated school in Mississippi; Jackson racists call it "Cancer College." The dean of students, Methodist Minister R. Edwin King, keeps as a souvenir a charred K.K.K. cross-"the handy field model," he jokes-that was set afire this spring on Tougaloo's campus...
...college has a faculty of 34 (half white, half Negro) and a student body of half a dozen whites and 500 Negroes. "We get some students with good potential, but they are undereducated-if they are educated at all," said Adam Beittel, the white president of Tougaloo...
Brown graduate students and professors will go to Tougaloo on one-year assignments to beef up its overloaded staff (only the English department has more than three teachers) and improve instruction in several departments taught by men without doctorates. Tougaloo, in turn, plans to send promising graduates to Providence for a fifth year of study, enabling them to go on to get advanced degrees. Jointly, Tougaloo and Brown will expand the college's curriculum, add a tutorial system...