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...newspapers of Boston at that time also took to editorializing about the incident. The Boston Courier, which was the paper read by those of the Federalist or Whig disposition, stated its whole-hearted agreement with President Quincy and the Gov- ernment of the University. On the other hand, the Boston Transcript, a Jacksonian paper edited by several recent graduates, put their sympathies with the students. "We have just heard of a new act of the wise men who guide the councils of our Alma Mater. . . ," the Transcript stated, "which threatens to ruin that ancient Institution...
...sets aside $37 million for government expenditure, including salaries, but only one-tenth that amount for development. Tubman's own annual salary as chief executive is $25,000. Agriculture has so far been given short shrift in economic planning. Graft and corruption abound, and Tubman's True Whig Party permits no organized opposition. In that sense, Tubman is the traditional African patriarch, the great tree under which all healthy opposition wilts. He is as sensitive to criticism as he is alert to potential opponents (there is no free press), and he may very likely be Liberia...
...numbers of participants proved another problem. Every morning at 9:30, a procession of 100 scholars and celebrities straggled out of the Princeton Inn, a long Georgian mansion sitting on the edge of a golf course, and wound its way through the Gothic arches of the Princeton yard to Whig Hall, the Princeton debating hall. There the group reassembled around chains of green-felted tables. The first day the tables were arranged in a horseshoe, which left some members separated by as much as 30 yards. The next day, the conference directors rearranged the setting trying to inject some sense...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. accused him of saying. He seemed rather to sense that talk of the previous days had gone to the other extreme, that the syle of reasoned discussion had detached the conference too much from the reality of the social crisis occurring outside of the sedate, columned Whig Hall, and indeed, outside of Princeton...
...press played a peculiar role in encouraging this self-indulgence. It obviously considered itself unsullied by what one Harvard scholar called "the circus" in Whig Hall. And it broke into vigorous applause when Sam Brown delivered his blistering attack on the fourth day of the conference. Still, why the press was there at all was a mystery to most of the participants, and by its elaborate coverage--there were probably as many reporters as participants and the cameramen were ubiquitous--the news media admitted implicitly the importance of the people whom it ridiculed in daily copy. Most of their stories...