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More students will be able to obtain jobs this summer than last year, John W. Holt, Director of Student Employment, predicted yesterday. He does not attribute this increase, however, to any shortage of manpower which may result from the draft...
Died. Hamilton Holt, 78, from 1925 to 1949 president of Florida's Rollins College (see EDUCATION), onetime editor and owner of the weekly Independent, now defunct; of a heart attack; in Putnam, Conn. At Rollins, Brooklyn-born President Holt abolished lectures, substituted group discussions, credited originality as much as "A" grades, allowed students to determine their own direction and rate of progress. On the side, he stumped the country in support of the League of Nations, later espoused such lesser causes as simplified spelling ("thru") and the Eighteenth Amendment, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. senate and the Connecticut legislature...
...Wagner recalls, "my first year at Rollins was a heavenly one," and on the surface, the majority of Rollins was inclined to agree. The real source of the trouble ahead was buried in Rollins' past. From ex-President Hamilton Holt, Wagner had inherited a debt of $500,000, and the interest on that alone was eating up every bit of endowment income. It was when Wagner tried to do something about Rollins' shaky finances that the trouble began to come out into the open...
...ruckus, calmness and common sense were lost. By last week the Kappa Alpha fraternity had threatened to pull out of Rollins en masse unless Wagner resigned. Someone put a "For Sale" sign in front of Wagner's house as an unmistakable hint. Some seniors demanded that ex-President Holt hand out their diplomas rather than Wagner. _ And even Hamilton Holt, Wagner's original sponsor, reversing himself, lent his powerful voice to the anti-Wagner camp...
...week's end, a majority of the trustees, gathered in Manhattan for an emergency session, finally stepped in to call a halt to the whole tragic affair. Before they could reach a decision, they received one final shock: Rollins' idolized ex-President Holt died in Putnam, Conn., at 78 (see MILESTONES...