New York University invented the "floating college," a college on a globe-circling steamboat. This project has yet to materialize (TIME, June 29). To Princeton University goes credit for the first "rolling course," a college course administered in a continent-touring Pullman car. The car will be specially designed to accommodate 22 professors, instructors and students. It will travel 10,000 miles. The course will be one in geology and mineralogy and the car will leave Princeton July 1 and stop at localities of geological interest for field trips.
This project too has yet to...
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