The academically forlorn University of Georgia system was restored last week to accredited standing. The Southern Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools generously made the accrediting retroactive to September 1942—the date when Georgia was dropped from respectable academic society after gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge had 1) packed the Georgia Board of Regents with political stooges; 2) made himself a member of the board; 3) fired Dean Walter D. Cocking (of the university's College of Education), President Marvin S. Pittman (of Georgia State Teachers College) and others because they were "furriners" (Pittman is...
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