Word: butlering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Severely challenging the views held by President Butler of Columbia, a letter by E. Merrick Dodd, Jr. '10, professor of Law, and member of American Defense, Harvard Group, was summarized in yesterday's New York Times...
...Between Dr. Butler's position and that taken by the Harvard group there is a gulf which cannot be bridged by compromise. We believe that most educators and most laymen in America stand unequivocally on the liberal side. In fact, the Columbia president is so far out of line we wonder if, according to his own reasoning, he should not 'in ordinary self-respect' resign. If 'to use the prestige of a university relationship to undermine or to tear down the foundations of principle upon which alone that university can rest' calls for severance of the university relationship, Dr. Butler...
...Manhattan's Supreme Court appeared one Helen Butler Jacobs to sue the estate of Joe ("Yussel the Muscle") Jacobs, late fight manager, for $1,000 and a third of his share of the Max Baer-Tony Galento fight, claiming she was his wife. Said William J. McCarney, Jacobs' former business partner: "He had half a dozen girls. . . . When he introduced another woman to me as his 'little wife' I asked him if he was married. 'Do you think I'm crazy?' he answered...
...address to the faculty Dr. Butler stated that "for those who are in statu pupillari the phrase academic freedom has no meaning whatsoever." We feel quite certain that these "wards" of the University will not agree. We do not think that they will hold with Dr. Butler that this phrase "relates solely to freedom of thought and inquiry and to freedom of teaching on the part of accomplished scholars." The undergraduate has a right to assume that freedom of thought and of inquiry is a privilege which extends to himself as well as to members of the faculty. If academic...
...Butler says: "Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring them in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way towards its lofty aim should, in ordinary decency and self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership." This suggestion neglects to consider the interests of the student, who after all stands to suffer most by such action. Whether or not members of the faculty will take up Dr. Butler's challenge, we don't know. The result is more likely to be that those whose conduct is in "open conflict" with...