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Cooled. In Appleton, Wis., charged with selling adulterated milk, Dairyman Vernon Ferron explained that he had "just put a couple of quarts of water in to cool the milk," paid a $25 fine...
Tacked to the bulletin board in the entranceway was the weekly announcement of services in Appleton Chapel and Memorial Church. The bald man was drawn to its list of preachers. "I wonder how many of these . . . ." he said...
...tidy office in Appleton, Wis. one autumn day, a lean, brown-haired man sat down at his desk to face an irksome task. Nathan Marsh Pusey was writing his biography for the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard, and it was with much of the agony that H. M. Pulham Esq. went through ("a good deal like something on a tombstone . . . never did like writing . . .") that he dutifully recorded his life. He noted that he had three chil dren, was president of Appleton's Lawrence College (enrollment: 800), that "liberal education is my chief concern...
Transforming Minds. In 1944 Pusey went back to Appleton as president of Lawrence College. By that time he had come to the conclusion that a whole dimension was missing from U.S. education. Like his old Professor Irving Babbitt, he felt that "too many modern teachers commit the error of teaching students to see the evils and shortcomings of society without at the same time pointing out the evils that exist in them [selves]." The purpose of liberal education was not merely to impart knowledge; it was also to "transform personality by transforming minds ... But they [cannot be] transformed ... by materials...
Gain & Loss. Beyond Harvard, he has played senior defense counsel to the academic world, for "if there is anything education does not lack today it is critics." While at Appleton, he was a sponsor of a campaign pamphlet against his fellow townsman Joseph McCarthy. The junior Senator from Wisconsin has apparently never forgotten him. "Harvard's loss," said McCarthy of Pusey's election, "is Wisconsin's gain." Then he proceeded to paint a picture of the university as a "privileged sanctuary for Fifth Amendment Communists ... I cannot conceive of anyone sending their children anywhere where they might...