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1950The
Alumni Memorial Building, later named the Alumni Memorial
University Center (and eventually incorporated into the
Dobbs University Center) opens. |
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1950The
University Senate is established. |
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1951John
A. Griffin establishes the forerunner of Evening at Emory,
a non-credit community education program. |
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1952The
University establishes an interdisciplinary graduate program called
the Institute of the Liberal Arts. |
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1953Emory
College officially becomes coeducational. Although it had
previously admitted women under limited circumstances, the College
had never before allowed women to enroll in large numbers and
as resident students. |
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1955A
new administration building, the first on the Druid Hills
campus, opens. A gift of Charles H. Candler, it completed the
Quadrangle begun in 1916. |
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1956Emory
acquires the Yerkes Primate Research Center from Yale University. |
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1958Emory
University issues a statement deploring the possibility that public
schools in Georgia would be closed rather than integrated,
and a non-credit course, Crisis in the Schools, attracts
attention nationwide. |
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1958Emory
purchases Lullwater from the Candler family. In 1963, the
home and its environs would become a park for the Emory community
and the official residence of the University president. |
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1959Ten
sororities receive national charters. |