Academic Disorder at St. John’s

Academic license scarcely can go further than it has proceeded at St. John’s University, in Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York. Forty or fifty professors and instructors, many of them discharged recently by the University, have been conducting a militant strike, with picket lines, incitement of students to “boycott” classes, a ridiculous “free university in exile,” defamation of the University’s officials, and enlistment of laborunion bosses and professional “civil rights” agitators in their behalf.

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Academic Disorder at St. John’s

Academic license scarcely can go further than it has proceeded at St. John’s University, in Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York. Forty or fifty professors and instructors, many of them discharged recently by the University, have been conducting a militant strike, with picket lines, incitement of students to “boycott” classes, a ridiculous “free university in exile,” defamation of the University’s officials, and enlistment of laborunion bosses and professional “civil rights” agitators in their behalf.