In the pale green West Ballroom of Chicago's Hotel Stevens last week gathered 100 college professors. An alert observer counted ten beards, So pairs of spectacles. It was the 18th annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors, assembled chiefly to discuss the subject nearest & dearest to them: Academic Freedom. Also there popped up another question close to pundits' hearts: low professional salaries.
Fire of Learning-Onetime chairman of the Yale chapter of the A. A. U. P. is Professor Yandell Henderson, able physiologist, expert on noxious gases, no fearer of publicity....