Education: Dismissal

In the spring U. S. college administrators traditionally pause to reappraise their faculties, promote promising men, reappoint others, bundle a few off to look for new jobs. In Lincoln, Neb. fortnight ago word reached John P. Weller, 39, an instructor in the University of Nebraska's French Department, that in June he would be eased out with a year's leave of absence at half pay.

Short, plump, bespectacled Instructor Weller brooded over his misfortune. One morning last week he dismissed his class, stepped into the office of his immediate superior, Chairman Harry Kurz...

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