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...milled at the university gates to protest the draft. In 1941 they voted 2-to-1 for the draft and aid to Britain, heaved out the Communist-infected American Students Union. California gold might have bought the president of Oxford, but hardly a more imaginative executive than Robert Gordon Sproul...
Barbs and Thunders. For resolving all manner of political tides (from Isolationism to Stalinism) into concentrated aid to the war effort-and at the same time preserving high scholarly tone-the credit must go very largely to big, booming, businessy Bachelor of Science Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with "owl")-'13, president of the university since 1930. No Ph.D., he became university comptroller at 29, prexy at 38. Many scholars winced at this raising of administrative talent over learned distinction. But Sproul imagined and organized a great staff of scholars, an academic mammoth...
...Sproul is the antithesis of Chicago's classical-minded Robert M. Hutchins. Multiminded as a department-store manager, Sproul tries to provide students with courses in whatever they want to learn. He has political genius. When the university's name was reddened, he toured the state to win friends. A nimble balancer, Sproul offered two answers to radicalism: for the short run, "barbs of ridicule and thunders of silence"; for the long run, "more equitable distribution of wealth and work...
Latest attempt at pinning the tail on the ERC donkey reached this end of the country yesterday when the UCLA "Daily Bruin" reported their University President Sproul picking April 15 and May 15 as the lucky numbers. Sproul, "who has just returned from Washington, D. C.," announced that Seniors and Juniors in the ERC will be called up April 15 and Sophomores and Freshmen...
Washington had better luck than California. Sixteen colleges and universities (among them Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Iowa State, Oberlin) agreed to give haven to Washington's Nisei. Of the 32 queried by Dr. Sproul, 14 replied they were "interested" (the rest said No or were noncommittal). And when Dr. Sproul announced the names of the 14, the outcry from their States was so fierce that three (Idaho, Kansas, Arkansas A. & M.) quickly changed their minds...