Word: atwoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago a geographer named Wallace W. Atwood was elected to the presidency. He determined to establish the best university course in geography anywhere available. He discontinued the departments of biology and mathematics and reduced the staffs in psychology and sociology. Other departments were restricted. The department of geography of which Atwood was the head took the center of the stage...
...Arthur Gordon Webster, head of the Physics Department and a man of high standing, killed himself after stating that he feared dismissal and that his work was not appreciated. Finally, on May 31, a number of past and present members of the faculty made public charges against Atwood. They included: Dr. Edwin G. Boring, now associate professor of psychology at Harvard; Dr. Frank N. Hankins, now professor of sociology at Smith; Dr. Kimball Young, assistant professor of psychology at Clark who leaves next month for Oregon; Dr. Harry E. Barnes, professor of history at Clark, who leaves...
President Atwood's reply to the charges, as quoted in the Boston papers, begins with the inevitable counter charge that his critics are radicals, and then continues in the following vein : "It's all bosh. Clark's athletic life is just beginning. Hitherto Clark did not compete with other colleges in athletics. They would meet them in debating but not in baseball. Now we are having varsity teams and the college spirit is being fostered." Follows a disquisition on college spirit and discontent, and then: "Next year I think there will be no faculty members here...
...great deal can undoubtedly be said for the development of graduate work in geography. But neither that advance nor the happy progress of athletics in the College answers the most serious of the charges, viz. that President Atwood has destroyed the spirit of co-operative scientific re-search which formerly existed at Clark. And as to that charge there seems to be no possible defense. Whether or not Dr. Webster was driven to kill himself because of the attitude of the university toward his work the fact remains that there is now an open rupture and that the old relationships...
...Linneus Atwood Lawrence 1G.B., of Yates City. III., S.B. (Knox Coll...