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...Holt's Rollins...
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...
Against Classics Professor John Andrew Rice, onetime Rhodes Scholar, brother-in-law of President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, there stood last spring the curious accusations of 1) whispering in chapel, 2) creating campus cliques, 3) swimming insufficiently clad in Florida's warm waters. President Holt asked Professor Rice quietly to resign. Professor Rice declined. Presently President Holt discovered the American Association of University Professors was looking into the case. At once President Holt fired Professor Rice. Then two Oxonians on the Rollins faculty expressed sympathy with Professor Rice. Out went one and the other resigned. Meanwhile...
...undergraduate weekly Sandspur, "dismayed beyond words," and President Nathan S. French of the student body both resigned from college. Many another student had already planned not to return next year because of a new "unit-cost" plan which will raise tuition fees to about $1,340.* Hamilton Holt seemed doggedly intent on having his own way even if it meant decimating his faculty and losing leading students. With him he had a complaisant board of trustees, save for Mrs. Raymond Robins, Florida bookshop proprietor and wife of Herbert Hoover's reformer friend who disappeared with amnesia for some weeks...