Colleges: Permanence for Hayakawa

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

—S. I. Hayakawa

During his seven months as acting president of San Francisco State College, doughty Samuel I. Hayakawa, 62, proved that an artful semanticist can become a national symbol of campus peace—at a price. In suppressing bloody disorders, Hayakawa both entranced millions of outsiders and embittered his faculty and students. Last week the result won him a dubious prize that he actively sought. By a vote of 16 to 2, the State College Board of Trustees, headed by Governor Ronald Reagan,...

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