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...Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was held. In the evening she would be back and next morning Uncle Charles would ask about her work again. Soon Lucille did not need to be asked. She talked at length of the things she learned. To Charles Rudolph Walgreen those things sounded dangerously like Communism...
Last fortnight, after Lucille had gone to bed, Mrs. Walgreen showed her husband a mimeographed quiz for an English course which Lucille had brought home. Lucille was to take one of a list of quotations, discuss it as "a starting point from which to frame a new social policy for the problems which we now confront." Mr. Walgreen's eyes ran down the list, stopped in horror and amazement at a quotation from Russia's Primer by M. Ilin...
What, Mr. Walgreen wondered, did they teach in government courses? That night he slept little and next morning he delivered an ultimatum: Lucille must leave the University. Short while later, when he dropped his niece at the campus, she had instructions to go at once to Cobb Hall, tell the Dean all about...
University of Chicago's short, round Dean Aaron J. Brumbaugh worried privately for a week before he took two conservative-looking professors to call at Mr. Walgreen's office. Mr. Walgreen seated them among pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, a lion, and a motto by Editor George Horace Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post), talked darkly of Reds and Sedition. As soon as they had gone he called his secretary, dictated a letter to the University's able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins: "With regret, I am having my niece. Miss Lucille Norton, discontinue her studies...
...Drugman Walgreen took pains to send a copy to each of the University's 30 trustees. Soon it got into the hands of newshawks. Chicago's Press gave it great headlines. President Hutchins made more news by asking Mr. Walgreen for evidence. Mr. Walgreen made still more news by demanding a public meeting of the trustees to hear the evidence. Angrily President Hutchins refused to give him a field...