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P:The nation's youngest university--the University of Dallas--opened the doors of its six brand-new air-conditioned buildings to its first class of 170 students. Originally the idea of Mother Theresa, provincial superior of the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, the university was first planned as a small Roman Catholic college. But when Bishop Thomas Gorman began raising the necessary money, he found support enough for a more ambitious institution. Headed by Francis Brasted, 44, onetime director of the education department of the National Association of Manufacturers, the coeducational university not only provides the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a new liberal arts campus open to all faiths; it is also the only college in the area to take in Negroes on the undergraduate level. P:Appointment of the week: Carroll Vincent Newsom, 52, to succeed Henry T. Heald as president of big (37.000 students) New York University. Carroll Newsom took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, eventually became not only a top mathematics teacher, but a prolific producer of mathematics texts. At 29, he was head of the mathematics department at the University of New Mexico. In 1944 he had the same rank at Oberlin College. By 1955, when N.Y.U. asked him to become its executive vice president, he had served seven years as assistant and associate commissioner of education for the state of New York.

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