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Married. Benjamin Holt ("Ben") Ticknor, famed Harvard footballer (1931); and Barbara Farmer, daughter of Yale's Athletic Director Malcolm Farmer; in New Haven, Conn...
PETER ABELARD-Helen Waddell-Holt...
When President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) ousted Professor John Andrew Rice last spring as a too-outspoken individualist (TIME, June 19 et seq.), he split his college into two angry factions, a large pro and a small anti. Out of the Rollins rumpus last week emerged a jump college. The antis clung together, their number increased to nine (out of a faculty of 45) by dismissals and resignations after the college year ended. They looked for financial backing and a place to settle. They found both. The site is a religious conference centre complete with buildings...
Liberalism has been the most important and attractive issue at Rollins since the beginning of Hamilton Holt's presidency, and since 1925, under his guidance and sane interpretation of the word, the college has known its only strides forward. But there are always found in groups, erratic leaders who push a good thing too far, and by that I'm referring to Professor John Andrew Rice, who taught liberalism knowing no bounds and disregarding all laws of convention. And so he managed to form his group of followers, "Riceites" as they were called...
When President Hamilton Holt dismissed Professor Rice (brother-in-law of Swarthmore's President Aydelotte), TIME, may have mistaken the yap of a small undergraduate minority for a case of widespread indignation. It now appears that President Holt did indeed have "good and sufficient" reason for the exercise of his executive authority; and that there was no genuine issue of Liberalism. TIME awaits the final report of the American Association of University Professors on the Rice inquiry and meanwhile regrets any injustice it may have done...