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Among the resolution-signers are Dr. W. T. Forbes, entomologist at Cornell, Dr. William Wheeler, dean of Bussey Institute (Harvard), and faculty members of Brown, Syracuse, Barnard, Wellesley, the Universities of Maine, South Carolina?many of whom were once members of the Clark faculty but left subsequent to Dr. Atwood's incumbency...
...March, 1922, geographer-President Wallace W. Atwood of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., won wide renown by ordering the lights turned out while Scott Nearing was delivering a lecture on Socialism to Clark students. Since then, he has been involved in various skirmishes with the student body, alumni and faculty. A year ago (TIME, June 11, 1923) a number of members of the faculty brought public charges against him, to the effect that he was purposely injuring and neglecting the famed graduate schools of the University in favor of his own Department of Geography and that he had weakened the morale...
...rumpus apparently subsided, but now, if prominent Clark alumni in the eastern States have their way, Dr. Atwood will be removed from the Presidency. They have drawn up resolutions asserting that...
...President Atwood should be replaced by an educational administrator who will be able to gather about him a body of teachers and students responsive to the highest educational ideals...
...only difference between the affair at Amherst and the affair at Clark is that they have nothing in common. President Alexander Meiklejohn of Amherst is a great educator. President Wallace W. Atwood of Clark is what is known as an " authority on geography." President Meiklejohn is a liberal. President Atwood is a reactionary. President Meiklejohn is opposed by his trustees arid supported by his student body. President Atwood is opposed by his student body and supported by his trustees. President Meiklejohn seems sure to lose his job. President Atwood seems sure to keep...