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University of Oregon (Eugene) President-Elect John Duncan Spaeth of the University of Kansas City ... L.L.D...
Plainly labeled as a Princeton "legend" was TIME's account of hearty J. Duncan Spaeth's profane exuberance at a Princeton crew's victorv over Harvard...
...OARSMAn FOR FOUR YEARS UNDER HIS DIRECTION AND A FRIEND FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE, I WANT TO BRAND THAT YARN AS APOCRYPHAL, UNTRUE, UNCHARACTERISTIC AND HIGHLY DEFAMATORY TO A DISTINGUISHED MASTER OF GOOD ENGLISH, A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT-ELECT AND A GENTLEMAN, DOCTOR SPAETH NEVER LACKED FOR FAR MORE EFFECTIV WORDS THAN THE DREGS OF SPEECH WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF TWO-HUNDRED-WORD ILLITERATES. THE STUFF JUST DOES NOT RING TRUE. STEWART M. ROBINSON...
...read with much amusement and quite a little regret your graphic and colorful sketch of my old friend J. Duncan Spaeth in a recent issue of your excellent journal [TIME, April 13] Parts of it are fair and true. There can be no doubt that this versatile scholar and forceful figure and leader of men is careless of his appearances, and well might be likened to a shaggy Airedale. While he is a splendid teacher, an inspiring athletic coach, a distinguished orator and leader of his fellows in many fields, little was said in your account of his intellectual side...
...have been an intimate friend of Dr. Spaeth for 48 years. During that time I never heard him use the vulgar expression credited to him as you related. I am very certain that this high-minded scholar and true sportsman never used the expression after his crew won the victory over Harvard...