Education: In Tennessee

The story of how the President of the University of Tennessee dismissed six professors who had expressed liberal concern over his dismissal of another professor who had purchased copies of James Harvey Robinson's Mind in the Making, to be read by his classes (TIME, July 16), had another chapter added to it.

The alumni, protesting, as had the student body, called a meeting of the trustees. (Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee, a trustee, had declared that the dismissed professors should have a thorough hearing.)

Mr. Bolton Smith of Memphis (whose son refused to take...

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