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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fervor was added to the proceedings by Colgate University's president, Dr. George Barton Cutten. President Cutten said: "TIME Magazine has called me 'the most reactionary college president in America.' Well, I have good company. I think God is reactionary, doing the things the same as he did 20,000 years ago. ... I suppose the young people today say He hasn't an open mind because He doesn't do things in a modern way. If He did, I suppose they would have girl babies born with hairline eyebrows, purple lips and green fingernails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: 300 Congressmen | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...poll to name the most reaction ary U. S. college president, Colgate's burly George Barton Cutten would be likely to win hands down. Dr. Cutten boasts that he is a rugged individualist and last year declared that God also "is a reactionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cutten's Reaction | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Cutten, born the son of a sea captain in Nova Scotia, is a onetime Baptist minister and Prohibitionist. For fun, he collects antique spoons. When he arrived at Colgate to become its president in 1922, he said : "The word democracy has become a fetish in America. . . . The rule (in government) must be by the aristocracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cutten's Reaction | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Ever since, Dr. Cutten has kept busy shocking U. S. humanitarians by calling social security "degrading," denouncing "parasitic paupers," modern medicine and modern philanthropy. Reviewing his utterances, the New York World-Telegram once concluded that "Dr. Cutten wanted a dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cutten's Reaction | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Cutten, with characteristic bluntness, proved there is one dictator he does not want. Abruptly and without explanation he announced that Colgate had stopped trading students with German universities, broken off relations with Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cutten's Reaction | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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