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...Manning and other moralists last spring by appointing Bertrand Russell a C. C. N. Y. professor.*Last week it again was rash. It prepared to appoint as president of C. C. N. Y., one of the nation's biggest colleges (25,810 students, day and evening), Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of small (550 students), progressive Reed College, Portland...
...Dexter Keezer quit college (Amherst) to be a machine-gunner in World War I. Later he got his Amherst A. B. and a Ph.D. in economics from the Brookings Institution, taught three years at Cornell, Colorado, North Carolina, quit teaching to be Washington correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and later an editor of the Baltimore Sun. He went to Washington as executive director of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, landed in Portland as Reed's president...
Reed's students first met their new president when he picked himself up from the mud at the losing end of the freshman-sophomore tug of war (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). Promptly christened "Prex Dex," long-faced Dr. Keezer lived up to his unorthodox introduction. When a visiting Japanese professor left his boots outside his door in Keezer's house, "Prex Dex" blacked them himself. An ardent fisherman, he gathered Reed students in his basement for classes in fly-tying. He also brought intellectuals of all political shades to talk to the students, advertised the college so skillfully...
...Keezer and Kendric N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government and secretary of the Union, will judge the contestants and award cash prizes of $5, $3, and $1 to the winners and an undisclosed body prize to the loser. Peter B. Saltonstall '43 will take the floor as master of ceremonies...
...Keezer's collections, the item he treasures most and carries always in his wallet is an official pass admitting him to the reserved section on Widener's steps during the 1936 Tercentenary. There he sat and hobnobbed with celebrities from all over the world. John Harvard beat Keezer to the Square by two hundred and fifty years. He gave his library to the college, but Max Keezer has gone deeper into the memories of under-graduates than even books...