Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Campos was president of the cosmopolitan Club before attending Law School...
Still somewhat fresh to the dignity of old age, Columbia University joins the nation's venerables this year as it celebrates its 200th birthday. With due pride, New Yorkers look back over the transformation of the tiny provincial college of 1754 into the colossal cosmopolitan university of today. For as the city has grown in size and importance, so Columbia has grown with...
...names of various Harvard and Yale alumni appear in the list of the university's presidents. But the bonds between the parent Big Three and Columbia are more than mere blood ties. With the coming of the present century, Columbia joined its elders as a university truly cosmopolitan in composition as well as in outlook...
...Brown president has radically altered the college's admissions policy to meet competition. The new policy puts primary emphasis on attracting the intellectual. It has replaced the long-held Brown tradition of provincialism with new plans aimed at attracting a widely-distributed student body. Almost half the the cosmopolitan university threads onto College Hill from out of state, particularly from the St. Louis area...
...nomadic Turks swept in from the open steppes in the 11th century and settled themselves in Asia Minor on the ruins of half a dozen cosmopolitan civilizations. Here, before the Turkish conquerors descended, the Hittites (2000 B.C.) first mined, smelted and fashioned iron ore into weapons; the kingdom of Lydia (whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer...