70 Year Magazine Archive

Counterstroke M.M.G.

by Finis Farr

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meant the administration was handing over its authority to a bunch of kids. But this was not so. An “educational principle” was involved. After all, the university said, these young men were only about twelve years old when Hiss was indicted. (I was only about ten when Babe Ruth broke into baseball.)

We were given press releases with an elaboration of this point of view from President Harold W. Dodds, in which he had been backed by 26 of 31 Trustees (one not voting). That statement is one of the most interesting documents issued by a leading educator in quite some time.

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