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FROM the deep-frozen midriff of Canada to the near-tropical bottoms of the Rio Grande, an unusual army of 8,000 or more hunters scoured the continent last week. Theirs was a gentle but rugged sport: they were afield from dawn till dark, slogging "Over hill, over dale,/ Thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale,/Thorough flood, thorough fire . . ." in pursuit of their quarry. When the chase was over, the hunters had no trophies to show, for they did their hunting with nothing more deadly than binoculars and telescopes. They were devotees of the flourishing sport of bird watching...
Glenn P. Blake 2Dv, associate editor of the Scribe, stated, "In searching for a new dean, far afield, it would seem as though the University has overlooked the most qualified man, who is right here in our midst as Acting Dean of the school...
...here that Combs' sworn testimony veered far afield from what Robert G. Sproul, President of the University of California, and others had said about the contact system. Since the inception of the system, Sproul has repeatedly claimed that the activity of the contact man would be very limited and would represent no breach of academic freedom. In a letter to the American Civil Liberties Union, which had expressed disapproval of the new plan, Sproul wrote...
...here that Combs' sworn testimony veered far afield from what Robert G. Sproul, President of the University of California, and others had said about the contact system. Since the inception of the system, Sproul has repeatedly claimed that the activity of the contact man would be very limited and would represent no breach of academic freedom. In a letter to the American Civil Liberties Union, which had expressed disapproval of the new plan, Sproul wrote...
...authority which the Corporation delegates to the Administration is not surprising. The President is usually a man of their unanimous choice and his views not too far afield from those of the Corporation. Puscy's stands, for example, on General Education, athletic de-emphasis, and McCarthyism at Lawrence all recommended him in the eyes of the Corporation...