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...that time, Dr. Butler's faculty had begun to get the point. They knew well that 23 years before, Dr. Butler had made a similar pronouncement, had fired Professors James McKeen Cattell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana* for extracurricular opposition to U. S. participation in World War I. Dr. Butler perorated...
World War I drove Charles Austin Beard, dean of U. S. historians, from the faculty of Columbia University. He was then militantly anti-German and prowar, but in October 1917 he resigned from the University because it had fired Pacifists James McKeen Cattell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. Said he: "The University is ... under the control of a small and active group of trustees who . . . are reactionary and visionless in politics and narrow and medieval in religion...
Editor of American Men of Science since its first edition (1906) is James McKeen Cattell, famed psychologist and educator, publisher of five scientific and educational journals, including the weekly Science. Lately Dr. Franz Schrader, Columbia University zoologist who was awarded a star in 1933, addressed a letter to Science protesting the system. Dr. Cattell tried to persuade Dr. Schrader to withdraw the letter, failed. As a scrupulous editor he printed it in Science last week...
...Sargent Visher thumbed patiently through three editions of a fat volume in which topflight science men were starred by asterisks. American Men of Science was launched nearly three decades ago with a $1,000 grant from the Carnegie Institution. Through five editions it has been edited by Dr. James McKeen Cattell, now 73, himself a starred psychologist. But Dr. Cattell awards no star either to himself or to others. From the beginning starred scientists have been chosen by vote of men of standing in their respective fields. For the latest edition 250 were selected from some 20,000 candidates...
...sending false telephone company statements through the mail, for misapplying $146,000 of a national bank's funds. Those indicted on various counts included not only Father Finney. Son Finney, Leland Caldwell (Son Finney's assistant) and Tom Boyd, ex-State Treasurer, but also Carl W. McKeen, president of the National Bank of Topeka and C. L. Cooke, president of Topeka's Prudential Investment...