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Flunkees & Indians. The answer is a pudgy, cyclonic Presbyterian minister named Millard Roberts, 41, who had made an impressive record as fund raiser for Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church. Swirling in as president in 1955, he treated Parsons like a sick factory. To beef up sales, Roberts fanned fast...
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'...
It was time for Charles to marry. He chose the Portuguese infanta, Catherine of Braganza, and settled down to a long and happy life with her, and with Lady Castlemaine, Moll Davis, Margaret Hughes, Jane Roberts, Mary Knight.