Word: hotson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professors who resigned were members of Haverford's English department. Dr. Leslie Hotson, Canada-born, is renowned as a "literary detective." Through old court records he tracked down the name of the murderer* of Playwright Christopher Marlowe, and he ferreted out long-lost letters that Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to his wife after he ran away with Mary Godwin...
...Hotson is chairman of Haverford's campus committee for aid to Britain. Dr. William Reitzel, an associate professor, was a former vice chairman of Philadelphia's branch of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, is now a member of the Fight for Freedom Committee...
Last week Dr. Hotson admitted that "the immediate cause" of his resignation "was a question of salary." But, said he, "an element that contributed largely to my decision was my disagreement with the administration over . . . academic freedom." Dr. Reitzel gave his version of the "disagreement" that led both professors to quit...
When Haverford asked René de Chambrun, son-in-law of France's No. 1 Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval, to address the student body Dr. Morley rejected Dr. Hotson's suggestion that he also invite British Novelist Somerset Maugham. And when Dr. Reitzel invited Eugene Houdry, president of France Forever and a supporter of General de Gaulle, Dr. Morley objected, and the speech was canceled...
...Morley last week explained that René de Chambrun was one of a series of speakers that also included British Novelist Phyllis Bentley "at the suggestion of Dr. Hotson." Furthermore, Dr. Morley said that Dr. Hotson asked for a raise soon after Dr. Morley arrived at Haverford last October, was refused, resigned last month. Dr. Reitzel, the president said, "informed me of his intention to resign" in October...