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Quick to honor a hero, quick to resent a slur are the rangy sons of the Lone Star State. Last week, quickened by both these emotional spurs, hot-hearted Texans rallied in droves to the banner of scholarly, pious Homer Price Rainey, president since 1939 of the sprawling University of Texas at Austin. Balding, unprepossessing Dr. Rainey, who worked his way through school and college to become one of the leading U.S. educators, was locked in battle with the Texas Board of Regents...
...Rainey's long-standing squabble with the Regents has sometimes flared into the open: in 1942 three economics instructors were dropped by the Regents against his advice for expressing opinions ";unbecoming a faculty member"; in 1943 Arthur L. Brandon, a Rainey appointee, was summarily fired from his publicity directorship, without charges and without a hearing. But mostly it has been a private battle...
...going to fight you like hell," Regent H. J. Lutcher Stark told Rainey in 1940 when the latter refused to remove three members of the faculty without a hearing. "I doubt the wisdom and propriety of you, as president of the University, urging or suggesting that a member of the Board of Regents refrain from doing anything whatsoever," wrote Regent D. F. Strickland in 1943 to Texas' president. Under the Board's rules a university president is supposed to be the professional adviser to the Board, but for several months Texas' Regents excluded President Rainey from their...
News of his death came as a shock to most big-game hunters. Klein had tracked for many of them - F. Trubee Davison, Paul Rainey, Archibald Harrison, the Aga Khan, Lady MacKenzie, Philip Plant. In over 30 years of following game trails, he captured or killed thousands of birds, snakes and beasts, from diminutive dik-diks to giant bull elephants. He stopped counting his lions in 1928, when the British limited each hunter to three kills a year. By that time he had bagged...
...also one of the best pitchers in the U.S. and while at Yale he had offers from six big-league teams. But his ambition lay in the ministry and he concentrated on Bible under William Rainey Harper. When Harper became president of brand-new University of Chicago, he offered Lonny Stagg $1,500 to head the athletic department...