Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Rhode Island's Democratic primary to choose a successor for retiring patriarchal U.S. Senator Theodore Francis Green, no one figured that Claiborne deBorda Pell, 41, had much of a chance. No one, that is, except Newcomer Claiborne Pell. So while the statehouse pros snickered, and while his opponents...
More than 60% of Parsons' freshmen used to quit every year from boredom. Roberts fixed that: he brought in six national fraternities and sororities, jazzed up band and football uniforms, hired Count Basic and Woody Herman for spring proms. When he introduced the trimester system this summer, he spiced...
Cut Courses. Roberts has not neglected quality control altogether. Marginal students get stiff tutoring, and most of them have done well. Of 86 flunkees imported last fall from other schools, all but eight averaged C or better, and four got straight A's. Like any shrewd businessman, Roberts has...
To ensure a steady capital flow, Roberts got top Midwest executives to serve as trustees, gives most of Parsons' honorary degrees to industrialists. As for personnel, he lures promising young professors with good pay and such fringe benefits as free membership in the Fairfield Country Club. Of Parsons'...
Academic purists may dispute Roberts' methods, but he thinks he has the success formula for penniless U.S. church colleges. All they have to do, says he, is realize that in the dizzy U.S. race to college, "somebody has to pay attention to the academically average guy."