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Frankie Frisch, 51, baseball's old "Fordham Flash," is an ingenious man and a highly vocal competitor. Once, while managing Pittsburgh, he tried to get himself thrown out of a hopelessly lost ball game in Brooklyn so that he could hustle up to New Rochelle, N.Y. and tend his flower garden. "No you don't, Frisch," said the umpire he was sassing. "Get back on the bench and go home with the rest of us." When Frisch was running the celebrated Gashouse Gang in St. Louis, Dizzy Dean used to needle him "just to hear that Dutchman roar...
...Fordham University...
...records fell Saturday night at the annual Ic4-A track meet at Madison Square Garden, but Harvard shared in none of the glory. Competing with a skeleton team, the Crimson tied with Fordham for 17th place with three points in the record field of 46 colleges...
When Father Robert I. Gannon became president of Fordham University, he promised "not to add a single student to the rolls," but in 13 years, Fordham's enrollment jumped from 7,300 to 14,000 Last week as he retired (TIME, Jan. 17), his successor, Father Laurence J. McGinley, said he hoped that the rise was over. "Education," said he, "has reached the point . . . where it is doing a little quiet self-analysis ..." A college might soon not have to worry about how many students it must educate, but which students it should educate, for one thing was constant...
Last week as he prepared to hand over his job to Father Laurence J. McGinley S.J., of New York, Father Gannon made it clear that he still hopes Fordham will have no part of plans (such as are called for by the President's Commission on Higher Education) for still more greatly increased college enrollments. His remarks ended with a typical Gannon snapper: "Instead of accepting more & more as the number of applicants increase, we intend to screen our students with more & more care . . . Unless we have this type of aristocracy . . . our Jeffersonian democracy will soon be a Russian...