Academic Freedom at MSU

Mr. John Hannah, president of Michigan State University, bachelor of poultry husbandry and honorary doctor of laws of his own institution, wants everybody to be happy on his friendly campus, which now has probably the largest single daytime undergraduate student body in the world. If you’re not well, you’d damned or it’s a kick in the breeches for you, down to where there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Alas and lack-aday, Mr. Charles Rogers, an associate director of the Labor and Industrial Relations Center at Michi happy, friend—soon better be, gan State University, wasn’t idyllically happy in his work. For Mr. Rogers—a lawyer and experienced labordisputes mediator who had taught previously at the University of Michigan and Wayne University—clung to the old-fangled notion that a university, even a state university, ought to be something better than a propaganda-arm; it ought even to try to be fair. He was the only man in the Labor and Industrial Relations Center who thought so. He was a good professor, as good professors go; and as good professors go, he went.

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Mr. John Hannah, president of Michigan State University, bachelor of poultry husbandry and honorary doctor of laws of his own institution, wants everybody to be happy on his friendly campus, which now has probably the largest single daytime undergraduate student body in the world. If you’re not well, you’d damned or it’s a kick in the breeches for you, down to where there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Alas and lack-aday, Mr. Charles Rogers, an associate director of the Labor and Industrial Relations Center at Michi happy, friend—soon better be, gan State University, wasn’t idyllically happy in his work. For Mr. Rogers—a lawyer and experienced labordisputes mediator who had taught previously at the University of Michigan and Wayne University—clung to the old-fangled notion that a university, even a state university, ought to be something better than a propaganda-arm; it ought even to try to be fair. He was the only man in the Labor and Industrial Relations Center who thought so. He was a good professor, as good professors go; and as good professors go, he went.