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...professor called it "the blackest day in the history of the college," and many of his colleagues agreed with him. The College of William and Mary, not yet recovered from its athletic scandal and the resignation of President John Edwin Pomfret (TIME, Sept. 24), was once again in a state of shock. The center of the storm this time: the man who had been chosen as President Pomfret's successor...
Case History Shocked and shaken by the resignation of President John Edwin Pomfret (TIME, Sept. 24), the faculty of William and Mary last week issued its own report on the college's bubbling athletic scandal. The statement was a bitter case history of a college caught in the snare of a big-time athletic program. Said the faculty...
...last thing President Pomfret seemed to care about was a big-time football team. Though he looked more like a small-town banker than a scholar, John Edwin Pomfret had won a solid reputation as a historian at the University of South Carolina and Princeton long before he came to Virginia's ancient* College of William and Mary (enrollment 1,800). When William and Mary called him in 1942, he was dean of the graduate school at Vanderbilt University. His plan for W. & M.: to give it one of the first-rate academic programs in the South...
...John Pomfret was almost too academic for his own good. The things that began to boom loudest on the shady Williamsburg campus were the things he concerned himself with least. For the first time, the football team began to take on such powerhouses as Michigan State and Boston University. The basketball team played in Madison Square Garden...
...Board of Visitors the administration seemed clearly guilty of negligence: "The entire situation is one which could and should have been handled with dispatch." Last week President Pomfret took the board's statement as a vote of noconfidence, handed in his resignation...