ABSTRACT
This chapter presents that there were three particular characteristics that were most essential to the success of the three presidents of the rapidly improving schools. First of all, they were men with masterful political skills. Second, the president was a man who was able to "create an image" for the school. Third, the three presidents seem to have a clear idea of what a great university is supposed to be. It would not be accurate to say that the faculty of any of the three schools was distinguished, but all three were surely better than adequate. There was evidence in three schools of a rapid liberalizing of the regulation of student life, though in all three of them there were still restrictions of the sort that would not be found at most other American colleges. These three institutions obviously had a considerable amount of things going for them: size, reputation, national image and the tradition of contributions to the schools.
