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Ashby was installed at a meeting of the Trustees on July 21. He spoke to the Board for two hours, and during this session the Board decided to dismiss two central figures in the "Olivet Policy," Professor T. Barton Akeley, who had taught political science at the college for 12 years, and his wife, the college librarian...
...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 the next academic year as a sabbatical year or whether you now decide to present your resignation...
...Akeley refused to resign. He needed his salary...
...same day Mrs. Akeley received a letter telling her that the Board had unanimously decided that "it does not desire to have you resume work as Librarian at the College...
...Board gave no official reasons for the dismissal, which took place without a hearing and without faculty consultation. But such observers as Time Magazine claimed they saw the unofficial reason. The Akeleys fitted into the supposed Olivet pattern of "queerness," which Ashby was out to correct. Akeley was highly respected among students and faculty, but he did were a heret, and he did hold what some Trustees called "liberal views...