Word: shor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans of Samuel Williston Shor, '41, to purchase a Maryland university for his own private use fell through today with the denial of W. R. Flack, Dean of Blue Ridge College, New Windsor, Maryland, that the institution was for sale, or ever would...
Flack termed the whole thing as a hoax, and said that he had no knowledge of the advertisement putting the college on the block which appeared recently in a New York newspaper. Shor ran across the ad two weeks ago, and in answer to his inquiries, received a letter signed by "W. R. Flack" which named $250,000 as the purchase price...
...Shor contemplated buying the college outright so that he might "establish himself as the youngest college president in America...
...started two weeks ago when Shor, looking through the New York Times classified ads for a soft spot in case he didn't pull through his mid-years, stopped short at an item reading, "College for sale; beautiful campus; old tradition; coeducational; write to Box $03 for full particulars...
...Shor immediately wrote that he "and several other instructors" were interested, and wanted more information. An Economics A student, he is already planning to organize a vast net of holding companies among the residents of Apley and Claverly to purchase the institution...