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...summer enrollment was blamed largely for the University of Pittsburgh's financial crisis, and professorial discontent with the summer work led to abandonment of the trimester by the state university sys tem in Florida. Yet this week some 800 students perspiring over final examinations at Wisconsin's Beloit Col lege testify to the fact that the trimester can live up to its early promises...
...surface, Beloit's success with the trimester seems easy to explain: all new students are required to attend the 15-week (May to August) summer term...
...appointment of Christ-Janer adds to the growing reputation of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (Beloit, Carleton, Coe, Cornell, Grinnell, Knox, Lawrence, Monmouth, Ripon and St. Olaf) as a breeding ground for major-university presidents. In 1964, Grinnell's Howard Bowen stepped up to the University of Iowa, while Lawrence has lost two former presidents to other and larger institutions-Nathan Pusey to Harvard and Douglas Knight to Duke...
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...contrast to Blake, the ecclesiastical professional, Thompson calls his dedication to church work a hobby. Born in Beloit, Kans., he is an elder of Wichita's First Presbyterian Church, has served on major Presbyterian committees since 1958. Thompson has a long record of community involvement in Wichita. He is chairman of the Civic Music Association, and helped to organize a local political reform movement (he is a registered Democrat...