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...overseen the fund-raising and construction of this first sailboat house for Harvard. He has drawn upon his vast circle of friendships and colleagues to sell the project Modestly he credits the moral support of the University and Dept. of Athletics and the substantial contribution of Harold S. Vanderbilt '07 as the prime movers...
...Earl Sutherland Jr. was hardly fazed when newsmen bearing rumors descended upon his home in Nashville, Tenn., last week. A professor of physiology at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, he remained calmer than the newsmen while a Swedish journalist in the group placed a transatlantic call to a colleague who was waiting outside the room at Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute where the Nobel Prize Committee was voting. After a while, the Swede suddenly turned from the telephone and gave Sutherland the news: he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his long study...
...coach who moved to the Pacific Coast from Vanderbilt to take command of U.C.L.A. and turned the lowly rated Burins into a national power? In six seasons his teams compiled a 42-11-1 record and in 1954 won the national championship...
...remember when I first went to New York after graduating from Vanderbilt, my mother, who was unreconstructed, said, 'I don't want you to go up there. You'll marry one of those Yankee girls. I'd much rather you married an English or a French girl'...The feeling was very strong. My older brother used to say that my mother didn't know that slavery had been abolished...
Loyalty to the South he'd inherited and devotion to the South he invisioned were crucial to Tate's intellectual development. As an undergraduate at Vanderbilt after the first World War, he became part of a group of literati called the Fugitives, including John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren, deeply dedicated to Southern regionalism, but "fleeing from nothing faster than the high caste Brahmins of the Old South...