Word: wayman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Dr. Thomas T. Shields, Trustee-President of (Baptist) Des Moines University won, last fortnight, his re-election and whelming trustee-support in his fight against dismissed University President Harry C. null one thing worried him. When he expelled President Wayman because he seemed to be a modernist, Des Moines students had thrown eggs, rocks. (TIME, May 20.) The police had to interfere to shield Dr. Shields and the University's loyal-to-Shields Secretary, Miss Edith Rebman. Now Dr. Shields had to return to Des Moines from a Baptist Bible Union convention in Buffalo and he was worried...
...Shields's chins quivered with emotion when he addressed the delegates. The majority cheered him, inferentially hissing his enemy, Dr. Harry Wayman, expelled President of Des Moines University, whose face is infinitely sad and who last week said: "If it were possible to banish Dr. Shields to some island under the sea. a great step would be taken in the interest of humanity but great injustice would be done to the fish of the sea." The Shields-Wayman controversy which everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student...
President Wayman did not attend the convention. But Dean Earl C. Galloway of the College of Pharmacy was there as his defender. He heard Dr. Shields charge that Dr. Wayman mismanaged the University, that he claimed academic degrees which were not rightly his. But when he tried to answer the charges, Dr. Shields would not yield the floor. Finally the Dean was allowed to speak, and then he found that most of the delegates would not listen to him. He therefore left the convention and started another at the Hotel Tourraine...
What had happened was that Dr. Shields, believing he had seen the gleam of Modernism in the eyes of a Des Moines University professor, had asked President Wayman to expel him and six others who seemed to have similar gleams. President Wayman had refused. A meeting of the board of trustees upheld Dr. Shields and his loyal secretary-treasurer. Thereupon Dr. Shields exuberantly expelled everybody...
What happened after Dr. Shields ducked under the desk was a shower of eggs, rocks, fruit, skins, fish. Then came the students, 400 strong, irate, crying, "Lets get Shields! Hurray for Wayman...