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...began when about two-thirds of Rollins' 630 students went out on strike, threatened to stay out until the trustees cleared up the whole controversy once & for all. Then the undergraduate weekly Sandspur put out a special anti-Wagner issue, accusing the president of distorting the facts about the college's financial crisis. Wagner denounced the issue as "filled with falsehoods ... a smear on my reputation." Unless the editors retracted, said he, he would suspend them...
...counterblast served only to heighten the tension. The Sandspur editors refused to retract, instead announced that they would put out another issue "in elaboration of the last one." Finally, two days ahead of their scheduled meeting, the majority of the trustees stepped in again...
...Kubs & Kids are rival teams recruited from St. Pete's Three-Quarter-Century Club. For 14 winters these septuagenarians have played a 25-game series for the championship of the "Sandspur League" (named after a prickly Florida burr). They play under somewhat different rules from the Yankees and Cardinals. They use a softball and a softball diamond, play six innings instead of nine, and errors, too numerous to count, are never counted. But no big leaguers were ever more eager to make a home run or a snappy double play. They make plenty of both. Average number of runs...
...last week Rollins' faculty was thoroughly agitated. Editor George Barber of the undergraduate weekly Sandspur, "dismayed beyond words," and President Nathan S. French of the student body both resigned from college. Many another student had already planned not to return next year because of a new "unit-cost" plan which will raise tuition fees to about $1,340.* Hamilton Holt seemed doggedly intent on having his own way even if it meant decimating his faculty and losing leading students. With him he had a complaisant board of trustees, save for Mrs. Raymond Robins, Florida bookshop proprietor and wife...
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