Word: shelton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seventh year on the faculty, Dr. Austin Jesse Shelton, professor of English and concurrently Director of Research and Assistant Dean, was fired by the college's president, Sister Mary Lucille, for adopting Richards' The Meaning of Meaning as a text in a senior course in advanced composition, although the choice had been cleared with his department chairman. Two students had complained about the book...
...other contributing factor was the publication of Shelton's novels, Brood of Fury and Hangman's Song, which had aroused external criticism from what the president called "our constituency...
...letter to Shelton, the president stated she had sought an opinion from a person she identified only as the chairman of "the English department of a large university and a recognized man of letters...
This consultant reported: "Richards' The Meaning of Meaning I would definitely not use as a text. He is full of associationistic psychology and this shows up in many of his books." He also felt Shelton's fiction to be "completely amoral, if not immoral...
...Brooks Cup for the varsity's top diver was given to Jay Shelton...