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Frank Cotolo
July 17, 2014 |
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Revered institutions of higher learning are not thought about as defunct. Still, many colleges over
the ages have, for many reasons, ceased to exist as schools and many have ceased to exist as
physical structures. A new book by Sketch Blowdry, PhD, covers almost every college now defunct.
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"I didn't list an ill-fated college," Blowdry told me in an interview conducted on the former campus
grounds of a college in Texas, "that wasn't once a thriving institution of knowledge. Also, it had
to have been opened for more than a decade and offered legitimate degrees."
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Blowdry's list does include "legitimate degrees" but none of the defunct colleges in his book
offered similar - no less better - areas of study that are cornerstones of colleges that still exist.
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The book, titled "A Complete List of Institutions of Past Higher Knowledge - Accurate to the Umpth
Degree," includes the following two colleges on its list.
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The Colorado University for High Voltage Analysis and Technical Swimming
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This college's campus was over 46,000 acres. Huge power towers marked the boundaries and all of
them were connected to the state's main power grid. Its inside territories housed 234 swimming
pools. At one point the student body totaled 5,000. However, in its 11th year the administration
could not account for the electrocution of countless students that defied college policy and did
not completely dry themselves off after swimming classes.
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Over 1,278 lawsuits were filed and the college could not maintain financial stability when having
to settle out of court. The entire campus was leveled and the property sold but three students went
on to win Olympic swimming events.
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The Reno College of Verified Platitudes and Calculated Proportions
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This college was so expensive to attend that some of the original graduates are still paying back
student loans that date to the college's first semester in 1926. Others died before being able to
pay back their debts, none of them ever finding careers in the elusive area of study. This is the
other reason for the college's demise.
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