Word: vanderbilt
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...added to the Medical Center. Behind it, a $4,000,000 science center will go up, and down the way, a $1,250,000 law building. A graduate school of business and an expanded engineering program will bring more students and the faculty will be enlarged. "I want Vanderbilt to be a great American university, not just a fine Southern university," says Chancellor Harvie Branscomb...
...Players. When Andrew Carnegie offered the medical school $1,000,000 in 1913, the Methodist bishops sensed an impending loss of control and vetoed the gift. The school's Board of Trust won independence in the Tennessee Supreme Court, settled down in the spirit of uncrowded excellence that Vanderbilt had attained. The first of poetry's Fugitives† arrived in 1915, and with the '20s came Vanderbilt's glorious but short reign as a football power. Then, for nearly two decades, the school lapsed into quiet ease...
Chancellor Branscomb took over in 1946. He put in nine years of dealing with the cliquish, 44-man board, and then persuaded Harold S. ("Mike'') Vanderbilt to accept the presidency and lead the school back to the role that his great-grandfather had charted for it-strengthener of ties "between all sections of our common country." Sportsman and Financier Vanderbilt was the first of his family to serve on the board, and he took the job seriously; in private airplanes, he flies into Nashville once a month from homes in New York, Palm Beach and Virginia, works...
...Crusty Leader. The student body of 3,861 is well above the national average in scholastic achievement, and Branscomb has helped by minimizing frills such as football and fraternities. Tuition has risen $400 since 1958 to the present $1,000 a year. More than half the students come to Vanderbilt from outside Tennessee, but it remains segregated in all except its professional and graduate schools, where desegregation is only token...
...Alabama-born Chancellor Branscomb has developed a campus reputation for crustiness that makes students marvel at his genius for fund raising. His let-your-conscience-be-your-guide approach has brought Vanderbilt financial support from nearly half its alumni in recent years; in the current drive, the Board of Trust set a good example by signing up for $11 million itself, thereby assuring the school of a $4,000,000 Ford Foundation matching grant. Branscomb has great expectations for his university, and he is content to sacrifice popularity to realize them. "He's not exactly the kind...