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Last week, delighted by progress so far, Wesleyan's board of trustees approved a third school, the College of Quantitative Studies (math). Equally enthusiastic, facultymen are working on plans for a College of Behavioral Sciences and a College of Contrasting Cultures (American, Slavic, Oriental). The ultimate goal is a complete reorganization of Wesleyan...
...That year three economists were dismissed from the faculty for having criticized a business crusade against the 40-hour week during the war as a cover for the antilabor views of Texas capital. In 1944 President Homer Rainey bluntly charged that one regent had demanded the heads of three facultymen because they had passed a scholastic rule that made his two sons ineligible for football. Another regent wanted to subject all teachers "to a patriotism test in the form of a questionnaire prepared by himself." As a result of such recalcitrance, the regents fired Rainey and put mild-mannered Zoologist...
...arbiters, held a long string of Government posts. During the university's bitter battle over the loyalty oath (TIME, June 27, 1949 et seq.), he proved himself every inch the mediator. As a member of the faculty committee on privilege and tenure, he was largely responsible for protecting facultymen from unfair persecution and dismissal, but he went about his job in so levelheaded a manner that he was able to placate even the most diehard conservatives on the board and in the legislature. By the time the American Association of University Professors got ready to censure the university...
Local merchants soon learned to stock their own stores from Filene's-if they could beat customers to the counters. As many as 150,000 breathless shoppers stormed the basement on the first day of a new sale-Boston fishermen and Harvard facultymen, U.S. Senators and Back Bay housewives. "Proper Bostonians," says a Filene vice president, "have always had an eye for a nickel...
...Looking, as one colleague put it, "like the president of a country-almost any country," erect, white-haired Howard Patch not only charmed and terrorized students ("they have to submit to the possibility of ridicule, stand up under criticism"), but also implacably lampooned shortsighted administrators (his sarcastic advice to facultymen: "If you want to get ahead, go slow") and all such vulnerable aspects of the academic life as the faculty meeting ("A hey-nonny-no and a hey-nonny-yes/Whatever's accomplished is anyone's guess...