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...from Catholic University. Harvard's divinity school has had a chair of Catholic studies since 1958; currently, the professorship is held by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie* is on the staff of the University of Chicago divinity school. Last summer the divinity school of Vanderbilt University created its own chair of Catholic studies...
...Others in the top ten: 2) Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 3) Mrs. Wyatt Cooper (Gloria Vanderbilt), 4) Mrs. Giancarlo Uzielli (Anne Ford) and Mrs. Stavros Niarchos (Charlotte Ford), paired "because their tastes are identical," 5) Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, 6) Mrs. Kirk Douglas, 7) Mrs. Angus Ogilvy (Princess Alexandra of Kent), 9) Mrs. Charles Engelhard, 10) Mrs. William McCormick Blair (wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines...
...biggest form reversal occurred in Los Angeles, where No. 2-ranked Vanderbilt had its nine-game winning streak snapped by Southern California 74-72. U.S.C.'s opponent in the final of the Los Angeles Classic was cross-town rival U.C.L.A., which started the season No. 1 and fell all the way out of the Top Ten when Playmaker Freddie Goss was laid up with a mysterious ailment and the Bruins lost three out of four. Last week Goss was back in action, and Coach Johnny Wooden's Bruins were looking more and more like the team that...
Self-Study. Political Scientist Heard came to Vanderbilt from the deanship of the University of North Carolina's graduate school. Taking over two years ago, he ordered a self-study in which 285 faculty and staff members produced a massive critical report. Heard read all 36 Ibs. of it, now uses it as a basis for measuring Vanderbilt's progress. He created a separate department of molecular biology and a division of bio-medical sciences, established a "distinguished professor" rank with high salaries to attract top talent, and overhauled the sociology department...
Heard argues that "the most pervasive aspiration of our time is for greater human freedom," insists that a university must "maintain an open forum" and defend the academic freedom of both faculty and students. He also stresses service to nearby Negro colleges: Vanderbilt now has faculty-exchange programs with Nashville's Fisk University and the cross-town Meharry Medical School, one of the South's main sources of Negro doctors...