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...team has already seen some action in the Coast Guard Invitational Tournament at New London last Friday. Grant won second place in the heavyweight class while Estabrook took third in the 137-pound division. Winning fourth places in the tournament were Greitzer, Kolodney, and Schmitz...
Your education section's "Wanted: Prestige" [Feb. 24] might have reported that [retiring] President Schmitz did not bar Dr. Oppenheimer from speaking at the University of Washington in 1955 or any other time. Indeed, Dr. Oppenheimer did appear at the university in 1956, a fact about which TIME was strangely silent...
...Said Dr. Schmitz in 1955: "My decision not to invite Dr. Oppenheimer to lecture on the university's Washington campus was reached only after long and careful study ... I do not plan to reconsider it." After the resulting storm of criticism, the university in 1956 welcomed Oppenheimer to a campus gathering of international physicists...
...credit, Schmitz approved an elected faculty senate with wide policy-making powers, never showed vindictiveness in dealing with his critics. But even before his retirement, the regents were determined to get a man who would raise Washington's academic prestige...
...Charles Odegaard, who will take over his new job Aug. I, they are sure that they have their man. A Harvard Ph.D., Odegaard arrived at Michigan the same year Schmitz went to Washington. In the next five years, his budget doubled to nearly $7,000,000; the faculty increased from 522 to 797. More important, the already high standards on his campus soared even higher. The classics experienced a renaissance; a stiff science program was put into effect last year, and the honors program was extended to allow bright freshmen and sophomores to strike out on their own. Last week...