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...Dillingham, although a Quaker, was headmaster of Georgia's Riverside Military Academy ("Though Quakers are pacifistic, I am not") when Ithaca summoned him back to New York in 1951, made him president in 1957. When he arrived, Ithaca had no accreditation and many of its students were Cornell flunk-outs who, insists one businessman, stuck around town "to enjoy the drinking life...
...Flunk-Out School. But what in tunket is Portland State College? Few people outside Oregon had heard about the college until the five straight victories on TV; and few people in Oregon who had heard of it had anything good to say about it. Students who flunked out of the University of Oregon and Oregon State University have often been told, condescendingly, to make a second try at Portland State. "A lot of people still think of us as the flunk-out school," admits an associate professor...
This amounts to "investigative arrest" -already widespread in many states. But knowledgeable lawyers say the practice may flunk a Supreme Court test. As a compromise, New York's new "stop and frisk" law imitates the Uniform Arrest Act-except that suspects may not be detained if the frisk or questioning fails to yield probable cause for actual arrest...
...that Medsker foresees a major decision within five years on whether the junior colleges will continue to perform both academic and vocational functions. He argues strongly for continuing the present system because a combined institution is more economical and avoids a "scarring" experience for the student who otherwise might flunk out of a four-year college, then enter a technical school. Flushed with their liberal arts success, some of the nation's junior colleges are already converting to regular four-year institutions -a trend that most educators earnestly deplore, since the community college then loses its own special functions...
...before the Columbia match the Crimson travels to Rutgers. Harvard has never wrestled Rutgers before. They give four wrestling scholarships a year according to Lee. "Lots of them flunk out," he says, "but never before the end of freshman year...