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Governor Elaine called a tax catechism issued by one of President Frank's professors: "A hodge-podge of lies, half-truths and mis- representation." Thereupon, President Frank replied that the Gov- ernor's statement implied the professor should either retract, resign, or be removed. "As long as I am president of the university," said Dr. Frank, "complete and unqualified academic freedom will not only be accorded to members of Faculties but will be vigorously de- fended, regardless of the pressure, the power or the prestige that may accompany any challenge of this inalienable right of scholarship...
Professor and Mis F. M. East. Professor and Mrs. I. C. Graton. Dean H. W. Holmes '03 and Mrs. Holmes, Professor A. M. Tozzer '00 and Mrs. Tozzer Professor W. H. Weston '03 and Mrs Weston...
...culinary department that his mis-management was most flagrant, and most felt. According to a contemporary account, the daily diet was mostly "porrige and pudding served without butter or suet." Mrs. Eaton, on whom her husband blamed the Squeersian board, admitted that "the flower was not so fine as it might nor so well boiled and stirred, and that the fish was bad." Pressed as to the presence in the menu of one of the most stable of foods-today, the lady said, "Beef, they never...
...Eaton was finally brought to court, charged with mis-management of College affairs. But the respect for him as a man of learning was such that he might have been acquitted had not the student body appeared, and with them, Banquolike, the grisly spectre of indigestion that sat at every meal in the College. The Faculty was convicted, fined and deposed, and the Eatonian reputation of the eating at the University has yet to be dispelled...
...reasons, briefly, are these: the modern college president, caught between the devil and the sea of trustee and faculty opinion, crippled by his load of financial responsibility, torn at by his mis-understanding undergraduates is, at best, a harried and futile dictator, at worst, the ancillary official of major interests without the college; the modern board of trustees are a group, unskilled in matter academic, educational--men of affairs without the interest of the college at heart, middle class, bread and butter people as ineffective as they are powerful; the faculty is a poorly paid group, subservient to their extra...