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...disclosed, what were the real criticisms of the dean. But on the question whether there was guidance from the University head as to what the deans should do there seems to be but one conclusion, there was no such guidance." The editorial explains: "In the Leonard-Goodnight war, brought about by Dean Goodnight's action [dean of men] in dismissing a couple caught in a love tryst, it was painfully apparent that President Frank had not made up his mind what the standards of life at a university should be. In such a situation it was. of course, impossible...
...herd-195 adults, 50 calves-is on the 20,000-acre Goodnight ranch, 40 mi. southeast of Amarillo, Tex. That whole region until the 1870's was the grazing ground of vast buffalo herds. Pioneers wanted the prairies for cattle-raising, between 1868 and 1878 deliberately killed practically every buffalo...
Foremost of the cattlemen was the late Col. Charles Goodnight. His first wife-persuaded him to preserve four buffalo calves. The present herd is their progeny...
Seven years ago Goodnight sold his ranch and buffaloes to Joseph Irving Staley of Wichita Falls, Tex. Mr. Staley made a fortune in oil, reached out into ranching, banking, aviation. Depression has pinched him. Ready cash is precious. The proposed buffalo hunt might realize $75,000. Besides, except in zoos and National Parks, kept buffaloes are an expensive nuisance...
Other Texans view the Goodnight buffalo hunt with alarm. Last week they raised hullabaloo before the Texas Legislature. J. Frank Dobie, Texas historian & author (Coronado's Children) flayed what he termed "going into a corral and shooting down so many milk cows." The Texas Senate passed a bill authorizing the State Game Commission to buy all the buffaloes it sees fit and forbidding the killing of all females and any bulls under ten years. Out of vast herds there now remain in North America about 22,000 known buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe...