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With such outbreaks of noise and violence in the past fortnight the long agitation over University of California student radicalism came to a painful head. Small, sporadic outbursts of young liberalism have made Red-fearing citizens plague the University's President Robert Gordon Sproul with demands for investigation. Sproul the Educator shot back a stout defense of academic freedom. To students arriving for this year's session he boomed: "Learn about Communism, Socialism and every other 'ism' so that you may balance . . . one against the other, but don't be misled" (TIME...
...Sproul the Administrator well knew that California's Legislature, about to meet in its biennial appropriations session, already felt none too friendly toward the University. At Berkeley he suppressed the troublemaking Social Problems Club, forbade student activity in the Merriam-Sinclair campaign. He was touring the State with soothing assurances of University loyalty when a bald, mild, solemn subordinate in Los Angeles set off last fortnight's fireworks...
...California's Robert Gordon Sproul: I am no flag-waving jingo but I have grown infinitely weary of the deprecation of America and American institutions. Listen and learn about Communism, Socialism and every other "ism" so that you may balance the different systems one against the other, but don't be misled...
Plumbers. Rising to urge more cultural courses for medical students. President Robert Gordon Sproul of the University of California declared: "From earliest times the physician has been honored by society, usually because he was a person of broad learning and high ethical standards. . . . Too many doctors today are little more than plumbers...
...suit brought against Film Actress Claire Windsor by Marian Read in Los Angeles for alienating the affections of Broker Alfred C. Read Jr. (TIME, Sept. 25): decision by Superior Judge J. P. Sproul that the jury's award of $75,000 against Actress Windsor "was so grossly excessive and unreasonable as to raise the presumption of passion and prejudice." He ordered a new trial...