Education: Bounce

Out of Jesuit St. Louis University last week bounced a distinguished bacteriologist. He was the first U. S. university professor known to be dismissed for supporting the Loyalist cause in Spain.

Like many of St. Louis' facultymen and students, quiet, scholarly Dr. Moyer Springer Fleisher, ousted head of the University Medical School's bacteriology department, is neither a Jesuit nor a Roman Catholic. Two and a half years ago he became a sponsor of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. St. Louis' Jesuit trustees were annoyed. When, year and half ago, the committee sponsored a pro-Loyalist speech in St. Louis by an...

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