Monday, Oct. 08, 1951
Report Card
P: After its long and bitter battle over ex-President Paul A. Wagner (TIME, March 19 et seq.,), Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. opened in sunny harmony under Acting President Hugh F. McKean, with a normal enrollment of 600 students. The only visible clouds on Rollins' horizon: a $500,000 law suit brought by ex-President Wagner for damages; a $25,000 suit brought by ex-Librarian Horace Tollefson against two anti-Wagnerites he claimed assaulted him. P: Bequest of the week: $156,345 to Williams College from the estate of a thrifty ex-salesman named Burritt Fitch Prudden, '97. Occupation at the time of his death: department store doorman and Christmas season Santa Claus. P: Course of the week: the University of New Hampshire's compulsory one-game seminar in football for freshmen. While the freshmen watch, the varsity will scrimmage and a coach will lecture on the plays. Explained one faculty man: too few colleges "ever go to the trouble of indoctrinating their students into the fine points of the game." P: Scandal of the week: at the University of Arizona, which expelled its star fullback, placed three other varsity men on permanent probation. Not for cheating, the university explained, or for taking bribes; they had been stealing chickens.
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