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President Hodgdon, who has resigned, explains that "there has been fostered by the faculty and outsiders, Bolshevism, Communism and other cults the practice of which is destructive to American ideals and principles;" and that the propaganda "can be traced to the heart of the Federal Government"--which has sent soldiers to Valparaiso for education...
...alleged Bolshevists, who demanded Dr. Hodgdon's resignation, say their dear desire is to restore their alma mater to its pristine purity, which was menaced by Dr. Hodgdon's striving to make the "poor man's Harvard" more like the real Harvard by paying money to athletes does that sinful device really persist in Cambridge? and by other "new ideas that do not jibe with the traditions of the university." The "loyal" students who supported the President organized parades and stripped for action in the best Lusk manner, but were prayerfully dissuaded from war on the local Soviet...
...Hodgdon's Extra-Curriculum Policy...
Speaking of this, the Gary "Post" said: "Naturally Dr. Hodgdon did not fit into the Valparaiso atmosphere. He was not a part of it and the teachers and students recognized that fact from the beginning. Most of them went there for just one purpose--to get an education. The idea of wasting their time did not enter their heads. They wanted athletics if they had time for that sort of thing, but most of them needed the time for study. Fraternities were all right if they could be squeezed in between the big things they were after...
...Hodgdon does not appear to have understood that Valparaiso is unique among educational institutions. In almost all other schools and colleges, athletics, fraternities, social activities, things outside of studies, have come to occupy the chief attention of many students, simply because the students are more interested in them than in their studies. But in Valparaiso the students have always been more interested in their studies than in these other activities. This is a remarkable situation and it marks Valparaiso as an institution apart from others. Such a mark of distinction ought by all means to be retained...