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Welch's list of "First Rank" schools provides no surprises: Chicago, Duke, Harvard, Princeton Seminary, Vanderbilt, Yale, and the Columbia-Union Seminary combine. He downgrades as merely "Marginal" the doctoral programs at eight church seminaries, among them the only Lutheran, Episcopal and United Church of Christ programs and two of the three Presbyterian ones. He also gives a Marginal rating to the programs at Fordham, Temple, U-C Santa Barbara, Saint Louis, Southern Cal, Catholic University and Drew University...
Alexander Heard, LL.D., chancellor of Vanderbilt University and White House adviser on campus unrest...
...year after the Penn Central Transportation Co. wheezed into bankruptcy, its court-appointed trustees have put up for sale its blue-ribbon real estate holdings along a ten-block stretch of Madison, Vanderbilt, Park and Lexington avenues in midtown Manhattan. Up for bids is the land under 22 buildings, including the Waldorf-Astoria, the Pan Am Building and the corporate headquarters of ITT, Union Carbide, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., Bankers Trust Co. and the Chemical Bank. These companies have leased the buildings, in some cases well into the 21st century, but eventually the buyers of the land will get control...
Squeezed by money problems, U.S. campuses from Yale to Vanderbilt are trimming scholarships for needy students, who now must borrow more, work more or quit college. The University of Pennsylvania is an agonized example. In the past 13 years, scholarships have grown faster than any single item in its budget-from $2 million to $14 million. They have helped Penn to increase its mix of black and poor students. But Penn is running a $1.9 million budget deficit. As a result, it is eliminating 57 of the 867 scholarships it now offers freshmen...
That was not Amy Vanderbilt speaking. It was Pat Nixon's staff director and press secretary, Constance Cornell Stuart, lecturing Washington's lady journalists on how to cover formal receptions. "I don't know which made me more furious," recalls one White House reporter. "Her patronizing lecture or the phoniness of pretending that reporters are guests. We're there because we write about...