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...Miss Ijams' behavior alone will Californians remember the university's 63rd Charter Day. Before Robert Gordon Sproul became president, the University of California never had a Charter Day speaker more liberal than Nicholas Murray Butler or David Starr Jordan. Walter Lippmann two years ago was a starter. But Pundit Lippmann had no such enemies on the West Coast as "Madam Queen" has among the San Francisco businessmen. Because she declined to use her department to weed out and deport alleged Reds, many a San Franciscan still believes that the Secretary of Labor was somehow morally responsible for last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spinster Snubber | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...MYSTERY OF THE CLOSED CAR- Kathleen Sproul- Dutton ($2). Private Detective Richard Wilson stops at a house-party in Florida for one purpose, stays on for another, accomplishes a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...quartet composed of Edward B. Greene '36, pianoforte; Malcolm H. Holmes '23, violin; Margaret Clark, viola; and Harold Sproul, cello, will play a program made up of selections from Mozart and Brahms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Musical Society Quartet to Play in Lowell on Sunday | 3/15/1935 | See Source »

...that distracted Provost Moore tossed the whole affair up to his highly embarrassed superior, President Sproul. Last week President Sproul arrived grim-faced in Los Angeles to begin a thoroughgoing investigation. Said he: "I want to get at the underlying truth of the entire question, which at present is not altogether clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Provost's Purge | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

Without consulting President Sproul, who is charged with full responsibility for University of California student discipline. Provost Moore took mighty measures to root out the plague. From the University for one year he suspended five student leaders. Four were members of student council: John Burnside, president; Sidney Zsagri, forensic chairman; Thomas Lambert, men's board chairman; Mendel Lieberman, scholarship chairman. Fifth was Celeste Strack, Phi Beta Kappa and champion debater. The four councilmen, charged the Provost had been "using their offices to destroy the University by handing it over to an organized group of Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Provost's Purge | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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