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...Harold Stassen's chartered plane flew east from Oregon last week, Lawyer Elmer Ryan, of South St. Paul, entertained the Stassen party with a recitation. Chubby Mr. Ryan, Stassen's former law partner and political strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty...
...Casey calls himself "an ex-scholar," but he still teaches. Almost every undergraduate takes "Casey's Lit," a course that rambles amiably from Dante to Spenser to whatever pops into Casey's head. At his weekly talk in chapel, students still "wood" him (stamp their feet in applause). And after big games, they still gather about his Colonial house and yell "We want Casey!" until he emerges, beaming and blushing...
Everyone is welcome at the Sills house and Casey remembers everyone's name. Popular Mrs. Sills chatters over her teacups, gives students a homey feeling (to a distinguished visitor who had called himself an s.o.b., she exclaimed: "Oh, you have an S.O.B.?" as if it were an honorary degree). The Sills have never grown used to visiting celebrities. Once Lord Dunsany left his shoes outside his door for a servant to shine. In the morning they had been shined-by Casey himself...
Though Bowdoin's endowment has risen from $2,000,000 to $9,000,000 since Casey took office, he has never even considered marble halls. He prefers to keep Bowdoin to its traditions-compact and personal, with a faculty of first-rate teachers rather than scholars...
...Casey Sills gets along fine with his trustees. They even forgave him when he ran for Senator on the Democratic ticket ("That's not really being in politics in Maine," he explains). But two years from now, he will give the trustees their first real problem: Casey will be 70, an age when Bowdoin presidents retire...