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...Minneapolis law office one September day in 1917, angrily demanded that University President Marion LeRoy Burton call the Board of Regents together at once. A young law clerk in Butler's office named Elmer Austin Benson pricked up his ears when he heard his chief shout the name "Schaper...
...small fry was William August Schaper. Chairman of the University's political science department, where he had taught 17 years, he was an internationally famed expert on taxation and government. Unaware that his academic neck was about to be chopped, square-bodied William Schaper was suddenly called before the regents September 13, harshly questioned by Pierce Butler about a complaint by the superpatriotic State Commission of Public Safety that he was "a rabid pro-German." Despite his denial of disloyal acts, the regents that night fired him for "his attitude." Schaper's friends charged the real reason...
Broken-spirited, Schaper made a precarious living selling washing machines and the like, finally in 1925, when War hysteria had subsided, went to University of Oklahoma as professor of finance. But the incident rankled in the mind of Pierce Butler's young law clerk, Elmer Benson, as he marched up the political ladder. It still rankled when, 20 years later, the law clerk had become the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota. Last week came the day he had been waiting...
...expenses at Arnold Arboretum), 2,500.00 Society for Promoting Theological Education, (for purchase of books for the Divinity School), 3,535.00 Mrs. N. E. Baylies (for Peabody Museum), 25.00 Subscriptions to Germanic Museum), 1,728.00 Charles L. Noyes, 5.00 Dr. W. S. Bigelow (towards the salary of Dr, Alfred Schaper), 100.00 G. C. Travis, (repayment of money received from the College while an undergraduate), 500.00 J. Randolph Coolidge, (for purchase of books on Turkey and the Eastern Question), 3,000.00 Charles Peabody, (for purchase of Babylonian seals), 100.00 Dr. W. H. Potter, 5.00 Augustus Hemenway, (towards salary of an assistant...
...Alfred Schaper, M. D., was appointed Demonstrator of Histology and Embryology for one year from September 1, 1895. Edmund Hersay, Superintendent of Bussey Farm and Instructor in Farming from September...