The new institution grew slowly during its first few decades, but enrollment reached the 200 mark shortly after the turn of the century.
Still, doctors see the two institutions growing ever more separate.
However, the institution grew to include a liberal arts college and graduate school.
But over time, experts say, such institutions can grow so large and diffuse that they lose their focus.
In the last decade this 61-year-old institution grew rather frowsy.
The institution grew to social prominence between 1980 and 2000.
Other courses began to be offered as the institution grew.
Great academic institutions grow from the bottom up, not from the top down.
The institution grew into a four-year university in the 1960s.
Since then, the institution has grown into a premier center of medical education in the state.