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...Hotson is chairman of Haverford's campus committee for aid to Britain. Dr. William Reitzel, an associate professor, was a former vice chairman of Philadelphia's branch of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, is now a member of the Fight for Freedom Committee...
Last week Dr. Hotson admitted that "the immediate cause" of his resignation "was a question of salary." But, said he, "an element that contributed largely to my decision was my disagreement with the administration over . . . academic freedom." Dr. Reitzel gave his version of the "disagreement" that led both professors to quit...
...ring it down beforehand. The applause for Napoleon's last bow was at Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together a convincingly human episode, a comedy that ends inevitably in death...
Expert Emmett Dunn; William Edward Lunt who helped Woodrow Wilson revise the map of Europe; English Teacher William Reitzel (Wright) who wrote Progress of a Plough boy and Man Wants But Little. Among Haverford alumni: ''Tune Detective'' Sigmund Spaeth; Authors Christopher Morley and Logan Pearsall Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent...
...work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five years ago, there wandered the countryside, spoke the language, watched the people instead of the politicians. Young Spaniard Jose Perdriga found Cuba rather puzzling. He had a job in a U. S.-owned mine and did it satisfactorily, though his simple tastes would have attracted...