Word: facultymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert's 54 faculty members are U. S. citizens. Officially they lead a drab, secluded life. Penalty for drinking is instant dismissal. Though Robert is non-sectarian and officially nonproselytizing, the ruling element in the faculty is composed of oldsters rooted in the missionary tradition. But younger facultymen, adventurous college graduates, mostly from the West and Midwest, go out on three-year contracts to see Life. Istanbul has a gay foreign colony and night life...
Washington deans rallied their cliques, brought their jockeying for the presidency out into the open. Least involved in the intrigue was gentle, popular Hugo August Winkenwerder, longtime Forestry dean. He got the job, as acting president. But no one felt that he would last long and facultymen were unruly. Apparently no Washingtonian could bring peace. The Regents decided to pass the word around that the job was open, wait for applications. They came in floods. Typical was one from a small-town high school principal who "had a knack of making himself liked and thought he would make a good...