Hunting & Fishing

A lively sideshow in U. S. education is Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. Its barker: President Hamilton Holt. Famed freak: a course in Evil, taught by Professor of Evil Corra May Harris (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). To the faculty of Rollins, reported Field & Stream last week, is soon to be added a Professor of Hunting & Fishing, who will teach the students "how to take the greatest possible pleasure from the wild ... to know the peace and beauty of woods and lakes where the game is abundant, to appreciate the dull loneliness of burned forests where all life has been killed."

Said President Holt: "A man can be a mucker [on the gridiron and diamond] and still get applause. The same tactics in the duck blind or on the quail field will bring him the contempt of his companions. Taking an average, I have found more outdoorsmen whom I admired than I have athletes. ...

"Our faculty is well paid ... to teach --not to carry on research or to write books. ... A Professor of Hunting & Fishing will fill an important place. It is just as important to know how to make a camp and cook a meal in the woods as it is to have an acquaintance with Roman history; as essential to appreciate the open country as be able to speak French."

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