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...LEAST DENSELY POPULATED CITY: Hilo, Hawaii, with 89 per sq. mi. Next: Oak Ridge. Tenn., with...
...site is called College Station, the trains that go through the 5,200-acre campus will stop only for hogs or horses, not humans. People who fly or drive there can see why critics call it "Sing Sing on the Brazos." Looming out of rlatland where the lowly "post oak" grows, the school is a cluster of penal-looking buildings flying the flag of Texas. Center of the campus is the Academic Building, with an odd dome topped by a bare electric light bulb that Aggies used to shoot out regularly...
...Chancellor Beadle is impressed by the system in Britain, where medical research units work off-campus, "free of teaching chores and administration overhead." One fervent advocate of expanding the U.S. centers is Physicist Alvin M. Weinberg, onetime researcher at the University of Chicago and now director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Worried that universities are being invaded by "Big Science," which turns professors into "operators" frantically "spending money instead of thought," Weinberg suggests that new technical universities and graduate schools be clustered around the centers...
...GLADYS REINHART CLARK Oak Lawn...
Occidental College is an oak-and-eucalyptus oasis of Italian Renaissance buildings dotting a green hillside on the northeastern fringe of hurly-burly Los Angeles. Its campus is small (120 acres), and- so is its coed student body (1,400). When the Ford Foundation bestowed its massive manna on liberal arts colleges last month, "Oxy's" $2,500,000 was the biggest Ford grant west of the Mississippi...