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...Summer School abounds with professors from other Colleges, but not all of them are here to teach. Edward R. Cain, for example, has no official connection with Harvard; he is in Cambridge simply to take the University up on its longstanding policy that anyone with a worthwhile purpose may use books from Widener...
...Cain, a government professor at the State University of New York, spends several hours in the stacks each day, doing research for a book he is writing on Campus Conservatism. He has finished 10 chapters so far; the completed manuscript -- to be about half again as long -- will go to the printer in early September for publication sometime during the winter. A tentative title is "Conservatism in Youth: A Portrait...
...Cain joined the ranks of Campus Conservatism cognoscenti only through a chain of rather indirect circumstances. Last spring at his home university he circulated a petition advocating the abolishment of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Cain sent his petition to his local congressman, whose reaction was to transmit a copy to the state police. The troopers responded by having two agents from their Bureau of Criminal Intelligence Interview the president of the University. Most of the two hours they spent with him was devoted to discussion of the 35 professors who had signed the petition...
...Cain, however, who got the last word. He described the entire affair in an article entitled "The Legion Invades a Campus," which was published in the Sept. 9 issue of "The Nation." The Trade Editor of the MacMillan company read the article, liked it, and invited Cain to work on a book for MacMillan taking up the general subject of conservative learings in American youth...
Enter the graveyard. Read the small stones: Frontier Circus, Oct. 5, 1961-May 24, 1962; Cain's Hundred, Sept. 19, 1961-May 8, 1962; Father of the Bride, Oct. 6, 1961-May 18, 1962; Bus Stop, Oct. 1, 1961-March 25, 1962. But curiously, there are fewer this year. The infant mortality rate among television shows has gone into a slight decline. TV's mediocrity is apparently becoming institutional, and some programs are being kept alive for next season that would have been kicked into oblivion in the more ruthless years...