When the Cornell University comptroller issued an edict banning dogs from campus, students rose as one in protest. A long-standing Cornell tradition had allowed pets not only on campus but also in classrooms with their owners. Prof. Clinton Rossiter, who found dogs no more distracting than coeds knitting during lectures, said, "Why ban dogs? Who knows, like coeds — they might learn something."

Source: "Dogs at College," Newsweek (4 January 1960): 39.

Newsweek (2 March 1964): 77;

Max Rafferty, "An Overview of ETV," Phi Delta Kappan, 51 (December 1960): 136;

Patrick Suppes, "Computer Technology and the Future of Education," Phi Delta Kappan, 49 (April 1968): 420-423.