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...supper. They first called themselves "The Argonauts," but when roast pig turned up month after month on the menu, the group came to be known as the "Pig Club." From 1879, with the entrance of the first pig, to 1794 the club gained in prestige. Finally, under Joseph McKean, grand marshall of the club and founder of the organization as it is today, the members adopted the more gentlemanly name of "Porcellian." With its early beginning and 164 years of tradition, Porcellian has always represented the final club to the non-clubbed world. Begun in an era when Cambridge...
...After its long and bitter battle over ex-President Paul A. Wagner (TIME, March 19 et seq.,), Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. opened in sunny harmony under Acting President Hugh F. McKean, with a normal enrollment of 600 students. The only visible clouds on Rollins' horizon: a $500,000 law suit brought by ex-President Wagner for damages; a $25,000 suit brought by ex-Librarian Horace Tollefson against two anti-Wagnerites he claimed assaulted him. ¶ Bequest of the week: $156,345 to Williams College from the estate of a thrifty ex-salesman named Burritt Fitch Prudden...
...automatically oust most of the anti-Wagner trustees. But before Governor Fuller Warren got around to signing the bill, the legislator was persuaded to withdraw it. Then 15 trustees met at the college at Winter Park, reaffirmed their decision to drop Wagner and to appoint Art Professor Hugh F. McKean acting president in his place...
...traditional Festival of Lights, senior awards were passed out on Class Day, and 128 candidates for degrees marched in procession to Knowles Memorial Chapel. There the graduates listened to an address by S. Kendrick Guernsey, past president of Rotary International, and received their diplomas-all signed by Acting President McKean-while Dr. Wagner remained quietly at home with his family...
Reassuring Words. But the dispute was not over yet. Paul Wagner, who had given up the keys to his office under protest, was still pressing his $500,000 damage suit against eleven of the trustees who fired him. The McKean administration cut off the light and water in Wagner's college-owned residence, forced Wagner to promise that he would leave the house by the end of the month. Last week Acting President McKean asked the Rollins undergraduates to carry a few reassuring words home with them: all the dismissed faculty members have been reinstated, intercollegiate athletics will continue...