Shock, Thanks, Cancer
Sirs:
After the initial shock of looking at my own tace on the cover of TIME, I appreciated and wish to thank you for your account of the situation here. It was, as I expected it would be, fearless, honest, and to the point. I am look-ing forward to the possibility of a period of quiet and research on cancer, but you may be sure that wherever I go TIME will go along with me.
C. C. LITTLE
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Oil & Water
Sirs:
Concerning your article, "Jobless Little,", Feb. 4, 1929. This article states-
"To Michigan, President Little took several ideas. Michigan had a football team that was making money. President Little insisted that the surplus be turned over to building more athletic fields so that all men and women in the University could exercise etc., etc."
President Little can lay no claim of merit in anything connected with Michigan's Athletic Plant. One man at Michigan has eaten, breathed, lived and slept Michigan's Athletic Plant for more than a quarter of a century—Fielding H. Yost. To Yost is all credit due. Michigan's Athletic Plant is a living memorial to the athletic and business genius of Fielding H. Yost—long before Little graduated from Harvard College Fielding H. Yost was dreaming, planning and working out Michigan University's present Athletic Plant. It is not finished yet, but every bit of it has been copyrighted in the brain and heart of Yost. President Little, doubtless, "took several ideas to Michigan," but the only idea concerning athletics at Michigan which can rightfully be claimed by Little is the woefully impractical and weak idea of the University having two football teams. Some real enthusiasm might have been engendered had the Big Ten Universities all put Freshmen football teams into contest with each other (since Freshmen cannot play upon the regular teams), but to expect a Michigan "B" team to create much interest when playing some other university's "B" team is, as was proven last Fall, impossible.
President Little, when he entered Harvard College, was thereby doomed to failure as a President of the University of Michigan. One can indeed mix oil and water, the saying to the contrary notwithstanding, but one cannot mix a real university with a "Collection of Colleges." An endowed college or collection of colleges, is a far different thing than a State University which is part of a State System of Public Instruction.
SHELBY B. SCHURTZ Michigan '08, '10L.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
To Michigan's Yost, all credit, but let Dr. Little not be belittled.
Michigan's Yost, in Manhattan last week, was dined by the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, also by the New York Stock Exchange (whose members and employes have teams in nine sports).—ED.
Michigan's Regents
Sirs:
In your lucid narrative report [TIME, Feb. 4] of the events leading up to the resignation of Dr. Clarence Cook Little you appear to make one statement that can hardly be justified, in view of your accustomed nose for facts.