Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the same time another grievance was created. Two students were summarily suspended for wearing academic robes and caps, gags in their mouths, and signs that read, "Are We Acceptable Now, Mr. G.?" ("Mr. G." was President Gideonse.)
But on August 9, without any previous warning, Akeley received a letter which said the Board had unanimously decided that his "usefulness . . . had been fulfilled" and that he was not to resume work in the College. "You can advise me," chairman Frank W. Blair said, "whether you desire to treat...
"Your new administration has called forth from Board members, from students, from faculty, from all ranks among employes of the college, the charge of domination, repression, threat, violation of civil liberty and of academic freedom and of the light to organize."
Eight days later, the administration was berated by a field investigating team of the American Civil Liberties Union. "By his autocratic attitude and by his and the Board's apparent lack of understanding of the traditional American guarantees of academic freedom and tenure, Dr. Ashby has placed Olivet College in...
Parker was later reinstated for the duration of the academic term only. He is now at Yale studying for his Ph.D.