Word: florida
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...economy. Richard Nixon said last week that a tax hike might cause a recession that "would wipe out the gains of the past ten years." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford believes that it would be a "tragic mistake." Democratic Senators Vance Hartke of Indiana, George Smathers of Florida and William Proxmire. of Wisconsin all oppose it. The President's influential fellow Texan, Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking Committee, flatly insists that a tax hike would plunge the U.S. into a depression...
...Florida Presbyterian began as a dream in the head of William Kadel, pastor of Orlando's First Presbyterian Church. Assigned by the Board of Christian Education of the Southern Presbyterian to study the feasibility of starting a new denominational college, he had to ignore some discouraging history: no Presbyterian college had been founded since 1904, and the trend has been to cut loose from churches...
...Judge Values. With the help of Psychologist John Bevan, who left his associate professorship at Davidson, Kadel got 281 acres of seashore land from the city of St. Petersburg. Two fund-raising drives in St. Petersburg netted $4,000,000; the Presbyterians chipped in with $3,300,000. Florida Presbyterian opened in 1960, now has 810 students and a campus of functional modern buildings worth $14 million...
Premium on Maturity. Another innovation, mandatory for all students at Florida Presbyterian and already adopted by such established colleges as Bard, Colgate and Colby, is the "winter semester" of open-end independent study. Spliced in between the two regular semesters, it gives the students a month each year to pursue a sweep of projects ranging from the study of nonthermal radio emissions of Jupiter and digging up the Mayan past in Yucatán to working with migrant workers in Florida's orange groves...
...Florida Presbyterian has done away with such college conventional musts as compulsory class attendance and grading. Instead, whenever students feel ready, they take two weeks of grueling comprehensives required for graduation. For guidance purposes only, they are given H for honors, S for satisfactory, U for unsatisfactory...