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When Washington's President Henry Schmitz, 65, announced that he would retire, few tears were shed on his campus in Seattle. A former dean of the University of Minnesota's agriculture and forestry college, he went to Washington in 1952. He was a kindly man, who meant and did well for the university in his own way. The biennial appropriations zoomed from $22 million to almost $38 million; faculty salaries rose an average 28%, research grants and contracts quadrupled, and a sizable new building program was begun. But in spite of all these accomplishments, Henry Schmitz...
...when the physics department wanted to invite J. Robert Oppenheimer to speak, Schmitz barred him as too controversial (TIME, Feb. 28, 1955). That action, said eight outside scientists who had planned to attend a conference at Washington, "clearly placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The next year, citizens were shocked to learn that the regents had approved the use of the stadium for a professional football game, secretly designed to raise money to subsidize athletes. "It is fantastic," stormed one professor, "what a cheap price is put on 'education' at this school." Added another...
...week's end Washington Secretary of State Earl Coe demanded that Governor Arthur B. Langlie fire Cassill and Everest, and investigate the strange silence of University President Henry Schmitz (who last year banned Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Washington campus). Cowboy Cherberg kept talking: "The filthiest thing in the world is to corrupt young Americans with dough. I may never coach again, but God willing, I'm not going to let them corrupt any more kids...
Miller, who refused to appear at the University of Washington because of the ban on Oppenheimer, said that the request for outside scholars to drop their boycott was "silly." We will join them when proper conditions exist and theses are up to Schmitz now," he added...
Miller spoke at the Harvard Club of Seattle after receiving an honorary degree on April 5 from Gonzaga University in Spokane. He said that in Seattle there has been "immense public discussion" over Schmitz' veto of a request from the department of Physics to invite Oppenheimer for lectures this summer...