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Upon leaving Yale, President-Elect Ham need not feel entirely as though he were joining an academic hen party. Among administrators of big U. S. women's colleges he has such companions as Smith's witty Scottish William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken. But Roswell Ham will be the first head man at Mount Holyoke, a jealously feminine citadel since it was founded in 1837 as a ladies' seminary by Spinster Mary Lyon...
...repeal the teacher's oath law, in which college presidents were cross examined as pugnaciously as court defendants when they spoke in favor of the law's repeal, Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard University, yesterday was ordered to answer questions "Yes or No!" and Dr. William A. Neilson president of Smith College was accused of being a member of Communist organizations." From The Boston Herald...
...true colors of many of his colleagues by announcing, "It's the college professors we want to get at." Mr. Walsh probably exaggerated the obstacles the oath placed in the way of his freedom, but the nuisance value of the measure was clearly stressed by all the witnesses. President Neilson gave it its truest appraisal when he said that such legislation does more than anything else to undermine respect for the laws of the Commonwealth and the legislature that makes them. The move for repeal of the Oath Bill is a battle against obscurantism and indifference. The latter enemy...
Onetime professor of English at Harvard, William Allan Neilson will announce his resignation as president of Smith College this spring--to take effect probably in June...
WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON: Beloved teacher and learned scholar, a former member of our faculty, now a leader in a vital experiment in education--the training of the college woman of today...