When Duncan S. Ballantine was appointed its president in 1952, Oregon's Reed College got its fifth new administration in just twice as many years. Long noted for its lively liberalism, Reed sometimes seems to carry freedom almost to the point of chaos. Last week, after only two years, Duncan Ballantine had quit.
A lanky, boyish-looking man of 41, Ballantine has a Ph.D. from Harvard, seems the sort of scholarly man any scholarly college would want. But other colleges do not share Reed's almost fanatical belief in the power of the faculty and student body. Example: when Ballantine suggested that the faculty...
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