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...MacCracken's Picture...
...short time ago you wrote to President Henry Noble MacCracken asking for a picture to be put on a cover of TIME and he refused...
...little later you tried to get it in a more indirect way, through the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier. Again he refused it. Somewhat to my surprise there appeared on the outside of your magazine [Oct. 1] a picture of Dr. MacCracken taken when he took part in a Greek play at Vassar. The photograph itself was a very poor one but it amused us for the time. Of course it was of mere passing interest and is not one that anyone would have sent you from here...
President MacCracken is too "big" a man to pay any attention to what you did but I think you ought to know that I have recently been asked by members of the Alumnae Association why he chose such a picture as that for such a purpose. This criticism seems hardly fair to him. I knew that tabloids did things of that kind but had never expected it of a reputable magazine. As that copy of the magazine has already gone all over the U. S., may I ask that you print this letter over my signature which will reach...
Still fond of English, his old specialty, President MacCracken teaches a freshman Education course which consists largely of lessons from his own College Chaucer. He has traveled widely, worked hard to promote international friendship through student exchanges. An ardent Democrat, President MacCracken is a warm friend of his college's great & good neighbor and trustee, President Roosevelt...