For months President George Nauman Shuster of Manhattan's public Hunter College got complaints. Some of his widely assorted faculty of over 500 seemed likely to tell their widely assorted girl students almost anything. Finally President Shuster sent everybody on the staff a letter which approved "scholarly or scientific enquiry" but threatened to prefer charges against teachers who expounded views abhorred by most Americans.† Published last week, the letter showed these to be the views to which President Shuster objected:
>That this war ought not to be supported.
>That Jews and Negroes are inferior races....
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