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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...academies at West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs and New London, only three colleges remain as all-male institutions in which every student must be a cadet: The Citadel, Virginia Military Institute and Vermont's Norwich University. Three others (Texas A. & M., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Pennsylvania's PMC Colleges) have made the cadet corps optional for men. To the dismay of combat-toughened alumni, they have also admitted coeds to all civilian courses. The seventh school, North Georgia College, has always enrolled women. The combined cadet enrollment at the seven has suffered a decline, including a drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: De-Escalation on the Campus | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...troubles of the military college are best illustrated by PMC Colleges in Chester, Pa. Started as a boys' school in 1821 and known as Pennsylvania Military College for 73 years, the school was skidding toward bankruptcy before it opened a coed night division in 1954, accepted full-time nonmilitary students in 1958, finally added an all-civilian branch, called Penn Morton College, in 1966. The trustees fought for two years over what to name the combination, finally agreed on PMC to please those alumni who wanted some suggestion of a military designation. Although cadet applications have been dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: De-Escalation on the Campus | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Potted to Pot. The PMC cadets still rise to reveille at 0700, freeze to attention any time an upperclassman barges into their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander learned that they had returned to campus after a drinking spree and sprayed each other with a fire extinguisher-a prank that would have drawn little more than tolerant laughs at most other schools. Even so, PMC has turned soft, complains Senior Cadet James W. McConnell, president of the student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: De-Escalation on the Campus | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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