Reminiscences of Dr. F.J. Pond: The Penn State Campus in the Atherton Era

"The past," writes Ben Novak in his provocative book Is Penn State a Real University?, "because it was lived, cannot really be destroyed. It can only be covered over, like a lush jungle that gets condensed into a pool of oil or a vein of coal, just waiting to be drilled or mined to have its energy released. But you have to dig for it, and you have to know how to use it. When we don't know what is in the past, we cannot use it, and we cannot release its power."

In his Reminiscences, Dr. Franc...