Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That statement, uttered early in the proceedings by Chairman Harold M. Wilkie. seemed to express the basic point of Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin, whose board of regents met last week in Madison to vote finally on the dismissal of Glenn Frank as president of the University of Wisconsin. All but four of the 15 regents had been appointed by Governor La Follette. When nine of them voted for an open hearing on Chairman Wilkie's charges against him, filed at last month's regents' meeting (TIME, Dec. 28), Dr. Frank knew he had only...
Harold Wilkie is a determined 46-year-old Madison lawyer. Hour after hour for two days he read and debated the 18,000-word bill of particulars that was to oust the best-known State university president in the land. According to Wilkie. Glenn Frank had miserably bungled or sidestepped vital educational problems in conducting the University, had permitted last spring's squabble between Athletic Director Walter Meanwell and Football Coach Clarence Spears to develop into a "public mess," had neglected his University responsibilities for too frequent lecturing outside Wisconsin, writing daily syndicated newspaper articles which had made...
...Wisconsin" he rebutted, "want a Fascist kind of university administration.'' Patiently diagramming educational statistics which the fidgeting regents did not want to hear, he defended his decade's record at Wisconsin, cited higher enrollments, higher average graduate accomplishments in the professions. His newspaper writing, said Glenn Frank, occupied only three hours a week and forced him to broaden his reading: speaking outside the State, once a month on the average, brought invaluable contacts among alumni, industrial and educational leaders, which any university president required. "I planned this program as a definite part of my duty as president...
...hand in the selection of presidents of State universities. ... I could imagine such a thing happening only in the early days of the Russian revolution by a committee of soldiers and peasants. It has happened here." As twilight of the hearing's second day descended over the campus. Glenn Frank had only a few more hours as Wisconsin's president. After recessing for a late dinner, the 15 regents returned at 9:25 p. m. to act on Regent Gates's resolution to remove Glenn Frank and appoint Dean George C. Sellery as temporary president...
...conflict raging between Wisconsin's Glenn Frank and his political and educational antagonists has exceeded the bounds of ordinary removal proceedings. Unquestionably in the minds of the people as well as the students and teachers, President Frank's imminent dismissal was actuated by partisan prejudice, for the majority composed only of La Follette appointees, voted to dismiss President Frank. It is, of course, true that a Board of Regents, in continuous association and supervision of a university and its president, must have the power of dismissal, but the motives in this instance were open to question...