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Three weeks ago visitors at University of Michigan's commencement were startled when President Alexander G. Ruthven exclaimed in his address: "To those young people who are planning to enter or return to the University next year, I issue this warning: Michigan welcomes only students who are convinced that democracy is the ideal form of government for a civilized people. She will not be confused by sophistries built around meaningful but ill-defined phrases such as 'freedom of the press' or 'freedom of speech,' but will deal firmly, without fear or favor, with subversive...
Undergraduates were not so startled. They guessed the target of President Ruthven's ire: the campus' noisy chapter of the American Student Union, which had spent a busy spring denouncing U. S. "war plans," and failing to denounce the Communazis. Last week their guess was proved correct and President Ruthven showed that he was not fooling. To a number of Michigan students (the A. S. U. said nine), home for vacation, he sent a curt lote: "It is the decision of the authorities of the University that you cannot be readmitted to the University." Others got warnings. Pressed...
President Ruthven refused to reveal the names of the boys expelled, first to be ousted from a U. S. university as alleged fifth columnists. But the A. S. U. disclosed that one was Leftist Hugo M. Reichard, of South Plainfield, N. J. Hugo is the youngest of four children of Hungarian immigrants. According to his brothers-one is a garage owner and Rotarian, another a truck driver-Hugo "turned radical" at Rutgers, where he spent his first college year. Vexed at Hugo's radical activities, his father, on his death bed, made the boy promise last year that...
...believed, however, that alumni pressure had been brought to bear on the Tiger mentor, due to the mediocre season of the Orange-and-Black last year. President Ruthven of Michigan implied that Crisler would receive a higher salary than the $7500 given Harry G. Kipke last year...
...Mississippi, including a $42,000,000 highway fund, the Senior Senator stood up before a joint session of the Legislature, shared the credit with Senator Bilbo and Mississippi's Representatives. Thus all went well until Senator Bilbo was well entrenched. Then last January President Roosevelt nominated Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes, a son-in-law of Pat Harrison's old patron, the late, great Senator John Sharp Williams, for promotion from a Federal District Court in Mississippi to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Fourteen years ago when Mississippi's Governor Lee Maurice Russell...