Education: At Amherst

Six professors resigned from the Amherst faculty as a result of the dramatic misunderstanding which forced President Meiklejohn out. One of them, Rev. Albert Parker Fitch, has a national reputation as a fiery, spiritually prophetic and denunciatory; and passionately intellectual orator.

Dr. Fitch said he could not associte himself with the new regime under which " free inquiry would appear to be no longer possible."

The other resigning professors, to date, are Messrs. Gaus (political science), Agard (Greek), Stewart (economics), Hinners (music) aud Hamilton (economics), who has become head of a Washington, D....

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