Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winner was another decathloner-Glenn Morris of Denver and New York. In the list of compliments with which the Sullivan Committee always accompanies its gifts, Decathloner Morris, who got 1.106 votes, was characterized as "modest, courageous, helpful, amiable and always willing to abide by decisions and rulings ... a fine type of sportsman. . . ." Decathloner Morris discovered his vocation in a way characteristic of decathloners. A famed footballer at Colorado State College of Agriculture, he had never seen the event until he visited the 1932 Olympic Games as a spectator. Decathloner Jim Bausch's victory, with a world record score, caused...
Through the current hearings on the Glenn Frank case the nation can scize its opportunity to grasp the issues involved. Clarification of these issues has been overdue since the first whispers of the controversy burst into a roar heard far beyond the borders of Wisconsin. The core of the conflict is simple. The Regents must decide whether the undeniable progress made by the University under Frank's direction outweighs the President's alleged mismanagement of intra-University disputes...
...CRIMSON, more through unfamiliarity with the facts than through intent, has failed to grasp the true significance of the Glenn Frank issue at the University of Wisconsin. Almost as with one voice, the college dailies of the country, assisted by a certain graduate group in the East, particularly New York City, have raised the cry of "academic freedom...
...question at Wisconsin is not one of academic freedom but of efficiency of administration. The president of a university of over ten thousand students must be an administrator as well as an educator. Glenn Frank has, in the minds of the regents and a large number of people of the state of Wisconsin, failed as an administrator of public funds. In each of the crises which the university has faced in the last two years, the Snell "affair" at the Extension Division in Milwaukee in 1935, the Spears-Meanwell athletic flareup last spring and the present budget question which brought...
...case on its merits, with full recognition of the facts and factors involved. A great number of the people of Wisconsin, as well as a majority of the board of regents, feel that Glenn Frank has failed as an administrator, if not an educator, in his eleven years as head of the state university. He, in turn, has demanded an open hearing on the subject and it has been set for January sixth. There the regents and the president will be granted equal opportunity to present their views, along with the alumni, and there the case should be decided...