Down to dinner in Manhattan last week sat sharp-eyed. Scholar and Libertarian Joel Elias Spingarn & friends. They did not celebrate "J. E." Spingarn's birth, his scholastic achievements or his work as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People but the 25th anniversary of a famed old U. S. academic scandal in which "J. E." Spingarn lost his job.
When, in March 1911, Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler dismissed "J. E." as chairman of Columbia's Division of Modern Languages and Literatures, he claimed that fiery young Professor Spingarn was unable to work smoothly with his colleagues....
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