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...University of Pittsburgh one day last summer went three pedagogs, sent by the American Association of University Professors to investigate the dismissal from Pitt's faculty of Historian Ralph E. Turner (TIME, July 16). Pitt's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman* said the dismissal was due to Dr. Turner's "sneering, sarcastic, flippant attitude toward religion." But all Pittsburgh believed it was because of Dr. Turner's loud liberalism...
...huge University of Pittsburgh received from the State of Pennsylvania a much-needed subsidy of $1,188,000. Last fortnight Pitt's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman touched off a battery of liberal protests by dismissing History Professor Ralph E. Turner, longtime loud and active liberal (TIME, July 16). By last week the smoke of battle had drifted East to Harrisburg and up the nostrils of that old liberal warhorse, Governor Gifford Pinchot. Cried he: "If the Mellons want a school to teach their ideas, then let them support it. The Commonwealth cannot...
...soon as he had dismissed History Professor Ralph E. Turner last week. University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman let it be known that Professor Turner's liberal activities had nothing to do with the case. Said Chancellor Bowman: "I merely thought his position here could be better filled by another man." But the nation raised a doubtful eyebrow. Too many facts fitted too neatly into a contrary pattern. In 1921 hardfisted, go-getting Chancellor Bowman had a vision. He would dramatize and thus revive his huge,* down-at-heels University by giving it the tallest academic...
...voice grows shrill with rage. But he is a good teacher. Two years ago Pitt seniors voted him their most popular professor. If anyone still doubted that he was a good teacher, Ralph Edmund Turner could and did refer him last week to no less an authority than John Gabbert Bowman, who few years ago publicly called him "one of the ten best professors in the University...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (in absentia -"I am virtually imprisoned ...") LL.D. Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman of the University of Pittsburgh ... LL.D. Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton University .... Sc.D...