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...Richard Fletcher, 47, director of student affairs, fell the job of investigation; he swiftly recommended disciplinary action. Virginia's able President Colgate Darden, onetime state governor, heard the evidence, expelled four undergraduates, suspended seven more for one' year and withheld the diploma of a recent graduate. A special investigating committee of the university's board of visitors backed him up. So did the full board in principle, although it shortened some of the suspensions...
President Colgate W. Darden Jr. of the University of Virginia fired a resounding blast last week against an old U.S. ideal. "In our enthusiasm for mass education," said Darden, "we have overdone it. By keeping inferior students in high school, we have watered down the educational job we could do for good students . . . We imposed on the teaching profession a grand and glorified day nursery. They are not running scholarly institutions." Darden's recommendation: "Return to public education as Jefferson saw it... Teach every child to read and write. After that ... we must leave public education open...
...Manhattan's Commodore Hotel last week, the chief embarrassing concern of the annual N.C.A.A. convention was the trial of the "sinful seven" - Virginia, Maryland, V.M.I., V.P.I., The Citadel, Boston College and Villanova. Six of the defendants, led by Virginia's forthright ex-Governor Colgate Darden Jr. (now president of the University of Virginia), called the Sanity Code hypocritical and defied the N.C.A.A. to expel them. The Citadel had already sent in its resignation because it refused "to lie to stay in the association." At week's end, when representatives of 240 colleges were called upon to expel...
Today the alumni will journey to Charlottesville, where, prior to the game, they will hold a luncheon. Colgate Darden Jr., president of Virginia University, will be the principal speaker...
...aristocracy, embracing one seventh of a total University population of approximately 7,000. Around them is now coalescing an incipient campus revolution. After a quarter of a century of laissez-faire administration, John L. Newcomb, president for a quarter of a century, relinquished his chair this week to Colgate Darden, former governor of the state and chancellor of William and Mary. Darden is an outspoken advocate of limiting the fraternities, which currently enjoy free flowing liquor and a similar interpretation of parietal rules. There are no bars in Charlottesville, so that liquor stores for the alumni "homecoming" weekend...