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...Holt never cared how many degrees his teachers had (of 105, only 21 have Ph.D.s) or how many A's his students got. He believed that students should "major in the subjects easiest for you, and minor in the hardest," that they should be graded for originality and self-reliance as well as for book knowledge. They were individuals, he thought, with differing aims; they should to a large extent decide for themselves how fast they ought...
...Prosperity. To some educators, such easygoing methods seemed close to madness. Holt was not concerned. His conference plan seemed to work, and more & more other colleges were using plans like it. Rollins itself prospered. Hamilton Holt was able to raise enough money to build 25 new Spanish-style buildings and quintuple the meager endowment (now over $1,250,000). He boosted enrollment from 240 to 625, built a Walk of Fame lined with stones bearing the names of poets and statesmen...
...years, Holt never altered his methods, nor changed his ways. He was always the amiable autocrat who collected antiques, breakfasted in his four-poster bed (George Washington had slept there), was forever popping into classrooms to see how things were going. Last week, as he said farewell, he delivered an autocrat's final warning: "If the Rollins faculty reverts to the lecture and recitation system with their inevitable grades and examinations, all of which tend to make the professor a detective and the student a bluffer, then you may hear the creaking sound as I turn over...
...Hamilton Holt's own idea for a successor was "either an old man of renown, or a young man with promise." Last week, the trustees voted for youth. At 31, big (6 ft. 1 in.), jut-jawed Paul Alexander Wagner, businessman and former instructor in education at the University of Chicago, will be the nation's youngest college president. When Rollins found him he was No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell...
Juiciest plum is Tracy's role as Arnold Boult (in the play it was Holt), a self-made, Canadian-born tycoon whose greatest pleasure in life lies in spoiling his only son. Young Edward, who never appears in the film, is actually an ingenious peg on which to hang a full-length portrait of his egotistical father. Boult's love for his son is really love of self; his determination to make the world Edward's oyster thinly disguises his own appetite for power...