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FROM experience, Dr. Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of Reed College (Portland, Ore.) has learned that heavy academic robes are stifling. Amherst A. B., Cornell M. A., Brookings Institute Ph. D., Dr. Keezer taught variously and brilliantly at Dartmouth, Cornell, and the Universities of California and North Carolina, but he was a fish that leapt occasionally from the dry bank into the stream to get into the swim of things again. He worked on the Denver Times and edited the Baltimore Sun, Reed College found him a year ago working on the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...
...Reed there are no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities, and student self-government is important. The intellectual freedom Reed attempts readily persuades some august citizens of Portland that Reed is a bed of radicalism. President Keezer is known to have worn bright red duck pants on the campus, but to the calmer observer the president seems merely to be airing out academic sanctity. He prods bookworms into skiing trips, but makes no effort to attract or hold playboys to Reed...
Such prominent business men as Carl Bolter, James F. Brine, George E. Cole, manager of the Cooperative Society, and Max Keezer are included in the list who petitioned the Senators and Representatives from the Cambridge districts to support the oath law repeal bill...
Martin's proposed Harvard series would include not only some of the faculty, but also traditional characters, such as Max Keezer. Blind Dan, and some of the Janitors
...presentation of Cambridge and Harvard, replete with old anecdotes and mythical and familiar figures is a delight to follow. President Dunster, Max Keezer, John the Orangeman, Memorial Hall, "Copey," "Kitty," and the Yard are blended in a brilliant panorama. He makes Harvard the incongruous yet integrated mixture of intellect and individuality, of rum and sophomoric rebellion, of great wealth and simplicity, that it appears to the undergraduate...