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...Akeley quashed one charge against him when he said, "The last time I were shorts down town was nine years ago." But President Ashby said that the Akeleys had been indoctrinating students with "their own peculiar ideas of democracy...
...Akeley didn't like such allusions. In a letter to the Trustees' chairman, he said that the attack on him was "an appeal to curiosity, to prurience, to fears of involvement . . . not in your constitution, nor in Christianity, nor in ethics...
...contention of Dr. Ashby that it is 'kinder' not to make charges against Professor Akeley's not a matter for Dr. Ashby to decide. Professor Akeley resents such innuendo and justifiably wishes to face his accuser or accusers because it is his contention that Dr. Ashby is chiefly interested in silencing and removing a liberal professor. The failure of a 'red scare' to remove Professor Akeley two years ago lends weight to Professor Akeley's contention. At that time, nothing was proven which was detrimental to Professor Akeley's reputation...
Throughout the month of November, the faculty continued to press for hearings on the Akeley case and for a comprehensive tenure system. But a statement of Ashby's to the Detroit alumni on December 9 diverted attention to another issue...
Other considerations may have entered into the Board's action, however. Smith had been the Socialist candidate for vice-president and was head of the Teachers' Union. Fahy, Mabee, and Smith had condemned Akeley's ousting in the first student newsletter. And all five discharged teachers were connected with the union...