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Other possible appointees are James R. Angell, former President of Yale, and President Robert G. Sproul of the University of California...
...Veterans of Future Wars paraded. Only song was All Hail with which all University meetings are closed. The many police present proved unnecessary as the strike was conducted along orderly parliamentary lines. Only through a misunderstanding due largely to the absence of President Robert G. Sproul was the demonstration held just off the campus instead of in the university gym. The overwhelming support that the occasion was given by a heretofore notoriously archconservative, socially unconscious, radical-baiting student body is highly significant...
Snubbed back Martha Ijams: "Thousands of alumni have no respect for President Sproul for playing politics with the Perkins woman...
...color guard of R. O. T. C. students started up the slope toward the Greek Theater. As the honor guests swung in behind, a golden concrete "C," high above on a hillside, glistened in the sun. President Sproul led the way with Governor Frank Finley Merriam, ex-officio chairman of the Board of Regents. Be hind, with her speech in a Department of Labor "penalty" envelope, trudged Secretary Perkins, escorted by California's best-loved professor, Vice President and Provost Monroe Emanuel Deutsch. Behind them, Citizen Hoover and General David Prescott Barrows, the university's onetime president...
That night there was the alumni banquet with a substitute hostess. When it was over President Sproul took pen & paper, had it out with Miss Ijams. No punch-puller, he wrote to the Daily Californian, student newspaper: "We are misrepresented by ill-advised zealots who lack balance wheels and by one or two alumni who are so unbelievably boorish as to insult publicly a guest of the university in mere pride of personal opinion...