The university

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Description

Filmed at Johns Hopkins University in from Sept. 10, 1956 to June 12, 1957. Black and white. Lynn Poole, producer, writer; Clyde Stallings, director; Leonard Grossman, editor; for Johns Hopkins University, in association with Milner Productions, Baltimore, Md. Larry C. Marxer, presenter. Digitized in 2004.

Abstract

Rising sophomore Larry C. Marxer details his first year experience at The Johns Hopkins University, from the September 10 arrival of new students to the June 12 commencement on the quad. Key people introduced include Dr. Wendell R. Garner, head of the Psychology Dept.; Dr. G. Wilson Shaffer, dean of the Homewood schools; Dr. Robert H. Roy, dean of the engineering school; Irene M. Davis, registrar; William F. Logan, director of administration; P. Stewart Macaulay, provost; Dr. Carl B. Swisher, international law and political science scholar; and three religious advisors. Mergenthaler, Remsen, Gilman, and Shriver Halls and Homewood House are pictured on the 120-acre campus. The freshman orientation week includes an "eye to toe" physical exam and a weekend of recreation at the Baltimore YMCA Camp where alumni relations director Osmar P. Steinwald leads the students in a songfest. Of the 400+ Hopkins professors, the following are identified by name: Thomas F. Hubbard, Alsoph H. Corwin, Walter S. Koski, Kemp Malone, Abel Wolman, Alphonse Chapanis, James C. McLaren, and William L. Straus, Jr.
Title Language
Dates

Date Published

1956-06-10
Publisher
Language
Identifiers

OCLC Number

56715624

Collection Number

COLL-0008

Item Barcode

mq2434393mmmmm
Resources
Resource Type
Moving Image

Extent

00:24:45hh:mm:ss
Contributor
Editor (edt): Grossman, Leonard
Director (drt): Stallings, Clyde
Production personnel (prd): Marxer, Larry C.
Producer (pro): Poole, Lynn
Producer (pro): Milner Productions
Screenwriter (aus): Poole, Lynn
Copyright and Use
System
Access Rights
Public digital access
Model
Video

Unique ID

0b528813-303d-4f4f-b3df-2bac43d82cdb