May I suggest that the next time you correct someone- you endeavor to be correct- and btw, you spelled Russell correctly both times which was rather silly of you. I wish I could have heard Russell speak.
>This would happen with Robert Gordon Sproul's appointment to the
presidency in 1930.
Though Sproul was not an academic, he was the first alumnus to preside over
the University. His reign was even longer than Wheeler's 20 years: he served
as president for 28 years, during depression, war, and boom. While Wheeler
built up the infrastructure, size, and duties of the university, it was Sproul who
transformed the University from a regional university into an international,
cosmopolitan, center of research and learning. During his presidency, Sproul
saved Berkeley from the dispair and major state cutbacks of the depression;
helped transform UCLA from a second-class campus to a close-to-equal,
sister-institution to Cal.; completely mobilized the campus to help fight the
Second World War in every possible way, from student-officer training to
helping develop the Atom Bomb (Sproul's vehement anti-communist stance
also caused many a campus problem); and watched as returning post-War
G.I.'s and new, millions of dollars of post-war government research grants --
all while increasing the reputation of the faculty and the level of research --
again transformed the university into an equal, if not superior, to her eastern
cousins. <
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