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...first glance, Mr. Mac is no man to be a college president, and Reed is the last place that should have him. The MacNaughton administration is the marriage of a blustery, conservative Scot ("I'm a Republican with a move on") and a stiffly intellectual campus with a reputation for lively, even leftish,* political liberalism...
...Tampering. Despite its academic prestige, Reed's money-raising problems became so acute that Political Scientist Peter H. Odegard, its fifth president, resigned in disgust. Reed went looking for a savior, and the man it got was Mr. Mac...
Serving without pay, Mr. Mac proved to be just what the college had hoped for. He liked Reed's twelve-man classes ("We don't want to water down our professors with students"), refused to tamper with the faculty ("The function of a college is to search for truth...
...symbolically went about switching off lights. To wealthy Portlanders he became a pest. He buttonholed them in the Arlington Club, badgered them with photographs of needy students, demanded contributions to his scholarship fund. He begged from businessmen all over the state. When they gave him their stock answer-"Dammit, Mac, I'll kick in for you, but why do I have to do this for Reed?"-he delivered them a stern lecture on the values of a liberal education...
...enrollment drop of about 30%, he was out to raise an extra $85,000. For Portland's biggest citizen-the most effective champion Reed has ever had-the campaign will be a pleasure. "The liberal ideals of Reed are worth fighting for at any time," says Mr. Mac, "and by God, I'm a fighter...