Word: wert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guests in the Greek Theater of Mills College, Student President Deborah Campbell caught the essence of the occasion in terms that only students at a women's school can fully appreciate. Said she: "There's a new man around campus." Indeed there is. Last week Robert Joseph Wert, 45, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome former vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at nearby Stanford, was inaugurated the ninth president of the West's best-and almost only-nonsectarian liberal arts college for girls. He succeeds the retiring C. Easton Rothwell, who led the school...
President Wert, who has a Stanford Ph.D. in higher education and was an executive of New York's Carnegie Corporation for five years, is determined to lead Mills in new directions. He contends that since research-dominated universities no longer provide a meaningful liberal arts education, this task is now up to the small colleges. The liberal arts, he says, need to be redefined to help meet the "desperate shortage of people who are truly generalists." In his inaugural address, he called for faculty conferences to chart Mills's future, but indicated he will oppose the current trend...
Paragrapher Vaughan, also writes essays for the Star, and recently scored two solid hits in this new department: the Bell Syndicate is syndicating his essays, and Simon & Schuster will soon publish a collection of them, Bird Thou Never Wert, in book form. But once a paragrapher, always a paragrapher. Said Essayist Vaughan of his book title, automatically composing a paragraph: "It fits the two main requirements for a book title today-it comes from the classics and means absolutely nothing...