Word: institutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Often in the past, the University has helped a new college in the New England area get its start. It did so for the first time in 1701 in New Haven and the result was Yale. It did so two years ago in Waltham and the result was Brandeis University...
"We're not going to make the mistake of land constriction," Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis says. "We want an organic campus for our university which will include nine graduate schools and 2000 students by 1960." These are ambitious plans for a two-year-old institution, which started with...
While denominational universities are nothing new in this country, one backed by Jewish interests is. Although there have been other attempts to found such an institution, Brandeis is the first to succeed.
Two groups, headed by George Alpert of Boston and Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York, jointed in 1945 to seek funds for a college; they acquired the present location in 1947. Previously, the property had belonged to the Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery. When the institution failed, its owners...
Accurately dated (by tree rings) as undoubtedly pre-Columbian is an Indian pueblo from which the Smithsonian Institution got a diseased vertebra. Dr. Tobin's diagnosis: tuberculosis. Another revealing item (because cancer was, and still is, rare among Indians): a pre-Columbian pelvis which showed that its original owner...