Word: olivet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secessionist movement brought to a climax a controversy over faculty tenure and administrative and educational policy which has agitated Olivet, Michigan, for almost one year...
...Olivet's troubles started when Dr. Malcolm Boyd Dana resigned in April, 1948, after four years as president...
...Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan, was founded 109 years ago by Father Shipherd, a revivalist minister who had helped found Oberlin College, and who told his followers, "Be not conformed to this world" and "Dare to do what we acknowledge to be right...
Last February, a group of Olivet students and teachers took Father Shipherd's precepts to heart, split off from Olivet College, and announced their intention to form a college of their own, to be known as Shipherd College...
...first skirmish of the war took place after Olivet's football team won its last home game with Anderson College (13-6) in November. President Ashby, a football fan, declared a holiday to celebrate. The Smith group of teachers and their student followers disdainfully held classes anyway. Later, in a speech to Detroit alumni, President Ashby remarked that most of the student troublemakers in the uproar over the sacking of Akeley came from one race and one locality. The S.A.C.s decided that he was referring to Olivet's Jewish students from New York, demanded at a mass meeting...