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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most remarkable fact abput this war was that Harry Gideonse went on teaching at the university, unmolested by his boss. Tall, lanky, Dutch-born Harry Gideonse is 37 (two years younger than President Hutchins) and well liked by his faculty colleagues. He strides about the campus with his big German shepherd dog, Bob, at his heels, sometimes takes the dog to class. While his controversy with President Hutchins brought him his chief fame, in eight years at Chicago he acquired a reputation as a crack economist, became the most popular speaker on the university's radio Round Table...
...from alarmed at the status of the college today. . . . The student body has shown itself capable of active interest in campus problems such as chapel, and the trustees have responded. Faculty members have been willing to give the public the benefit of their insight into contemporary problems. Students have participated actively in the affairs of North Adams in the attempt to better conditions there, and the first peace demonstration at Williams has proved a success. Most important, President Baxter has given a convincing demonstration of his educational liberalism throughout the year, culminating in the appointment of Dr. Lerner...
...agency: ordinance committee of the city council, consisting of three University of Michigan professors, three local businessmen and a tailor. Authority: an ordinance passed in 1895 prohibiting the distribution of obscene literature, providing for fines or jail sentences for violators. After two days of loud protest from the university campus. Ken and Esquire were removed from the banned list on condition that they refrain from publishing obscene matter. Judge of obscene matter: City Attorney William M. Laird...
...magazine: American Mercury for June; in Providence, R. I. The agency: Bureau of Police and Fire. Reason: an article, Chastity on the Campus, "by a Co-Ed." Authority: a voluntary agreement between magazine distributors and the Police and Fire Board which acts on citizens' complaints only. Last time the American Mercury was banned in a U. S. city was 1926 in Boston. Reason: Hatrack, Herbert Asbury's story of a small-town prostitute...
...control. And last week white-haired, conservative Dean George Clarke Sellery, who was Wisconsin's interim acting president after Glenn Frank's ouster last year, pushed the university into the national limelight again by charging that racial bigotry had reared its head on Wisconsin's campus. Said he: "When an effort to put [the Cardinal] into the hands of a different group for next year is supported by an appeal to race prejudice, I am in arms...