Six years ago the late Huey Pierce Long forced out President Thomas W. Atkinson of the University of Louisiana for blatantly political reasons. Last week young Progressive Governor Philip Fox La Follette of Wisconsin appeared to be setting out to do a similar thing.
Glenn Frank left the editorship of Century magazine for the presidency of the University of Wisconsin in September 1925. That month marked a momentary lull in La Follette Progressivism in Wisconsin. Republican John J. Elaine was Governor, old "Bob" was dead after running a poor third for President the year...
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