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nation's first and most outstanding antiprohibitionists and a large segment of voters kept their eyes on him. As a politician, he had an unhappy faculty for backing the loser: the Kaiser until World War I, Harding until the oil scandals, the early Mussolini who made the trains run on time. Despite his good words for academic freedom, students and teachers often denounced his conservative leanings. Since World War II began, Dr. Butler has been comparatively silent on extracurricular matters. In the house at 60 Morningside Drive which Columbia has built around him, and around which he has built Columbia, Dr. Butler made no public comment about his resignation, effective October i. But he once told admirers that, if they opened him, they would find "Columbia" written on his heart.