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Henry Goddard Leach, 54, A. B. A. M. Ph. D., Commander of the North Star (Sweden), Knight of St. Olav (Norway), Knight of Falcon (Iceland), and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, read over what he had written for the next issue of his Forum and found it good. It would make a whacking lead editorial...
After okaying the galley proof, Editor Leach scribbled a headline: "The Revolt Against Crime." He clapped a hat over his thinning brown hair, slipped into a raincoat, picked up his umbrella, strode out of the Forum office and joined the late afternoon crowds hurrying along Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. There was plenty of time for his customary brisk jaunt through Central Park before dinner...
...subject of the first debate, Resolved: That New England should secede from the Union. Four students will each give a seven minute prepared speech. Then, and this is the principal thing wherein the Society differs from those of previous years, the meeting will be thrown into an open forum. Every man in the room will be urged to speak extemporaneously pro or con on the subject of the debate...
Before the meeting on Monday opens, John H. Gleason '30, member of the Society's sub-committee of proctors, will explain briefly the mechanics of the forum. In the prepared debate the speakers for the negative will be J. W. Kaufman and Francis Keppel, for the affirmative John L. Calvocoressi and Richard W. Sullivan. Later in the year these preparatory speakers, who put the question before the meeting, may include a number of professors, tutors...
Crisis which precipitated the Provost's purge was a proposal for a student open forum, with the immediate purpose of talking over the State campaign. Provost Moore forbade the forum. The student council meekly tabled the proposal. But the jittery Provost suspected four councilmen of plotting with Celeste Strack and other Student Leaguers to carry out the plan...