Former Dartmouth president James Freedman has died. His NYT obituary, in the first graf, calls him “a forceful voice against anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance on college campuses”–apparently on the grounds that he despised the conservative Dartmouth Review. The NYT piously declared that the good liberal Freedman “defended The Review’s right to publish,” though I suspect that the staff of the Review hardly felt this way. A piece on Freedman’s legacy, published earlier this month in the Review, comments:

In addition to his treacherous efforts to destroy our undergraduate foundation, Freedman also had a long and dubious relationship with the student body and this publication in particular.