Evening star., 1935-04-05
ALUMNI HEAD HITS
"BUzzARDS" Who
"BA|T'PROFESSORS
Council Chief Says U. S.
Should Be Thankful for
College Teachers.
w. R. HEARST is NAMED
AS MAIN OFFENDER
Graduates View Abuse and Ridi.
cule With Smile, Ohio State
Official Tells Conference.

"Buzzards," "thwarted politicians"
end "sour grape seekers of privilege,
were, some OF the choice epithets ap-
piled today by John B. F'ullen, presi-
dent of the American Alumni Coun-
Gil, to persons engaged in what he
termed "the current professor batting
campaign The council is holding
it twenty-ffth annual convention
here.
More than a million college gradu-
ates are viewing with smile" the
present-day abuse and ridicule heaped
on the head of the poor but honest
college professor, said the graduate
oflcial, who is alumni secretary of
Ohio State University. He said
William Randolph Hearst was the
leader of the batting"
Far from subscribing to the atti-
tude toward the professor being
foisted in some quarters, the college
graduates, who know him best. thank
God, not only for what he did for
them personally, but for what he may
vet be able to do for the Nation
collectively through the quiet inf1u-
ence of his teaching and level
headed thinking" declared Fullen.
Not Creature Of Theory.
Judging by the cartoons We are
seeing, the professor Is a beWhlsk-
ered-looking worm who, because he
lives in a supposed cloistered sanctu-
airy, thinks that life is just a bowl
of cherries and that the world can
be governed by theoremS," Fullen
asserted
mo college professor teaching to-
day has any theory quite as visionary
as this picture of him. Some of these
buzzards ought to visit a college class
room of the twentieth century.
Although whiskers are not impor-
tant in the argument, the average
college professor today is 9. ,sclean-
shaven, common sense sort OF guy who
dresses in a conventional business
cuAL dllo 1OOho oAld ehSSc AVA sAAS ~@ASSs
part just like you and me.
He will tell you that he knows that
the world runs itself by its heart
and not by its head; that where
emotion and reason conflict, emotion
still gets the right-of-way, despite
centuries of Christianity and teach
ing. That doesn't prevent him from
trying to get the rest of us fools to
try to use our heads.
The Guinea Pigs.
"The President of the United States
is accused of being rushed off his
feet by the college professors A
State party platform recently referred
to the sinister and hidden purposes of
a so-called brain trust Those of us
who are not professors have been
called the l30,000,000 guinea pigs
well, just amongst us guinea pigs,
this country of ours owes a vote of
gratitude to those professors who,
with little profit to themselves and
generally a hand-to- mouth existence,
have devoted their lives to a service
of the rest of us. One thing no one
ever accused them of is greed or
avarice. OF all the labels fastened
on them you never see the word dis
honest
The truth of the matter is that
the seekers of privileges, who have
been milking the rest of us for so
long, are sore at the prospect of being
caught with the goods and by such
a harmless little rat as the lowly COL
lege professor"
This mornings session of the alumni
council was devoted principally to
consideration of means of co-opera-
tion between alumni and college ad-
ministrative officials. Prior to the
general assembly of the 800 delegates
attending the convention, breakfasts
were held by nine groups, each repre-
senting a different classification of
institution.
Go to White House.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was to
receive the alumni at the White House
at 2 pm. today and the rest of the
afternoon was to be given over to
sightseeing.
A formal banquet at Wardman Park
Hotel, the convention headquarters,
is scheduled for this evening at 7:30
o'clock. Those listed as speakers in
clude Senators Thomas of Utah and
Copeland of New York, Bishop James
H. Ryan, rector Of Catholic University,
and President Dixon Ryan Fox of
Union College.
At a session yesterday AL G. Slough
ton of Bucknell was elected vice
president of the council Glenn o.
Stewart of Michigan State was named
secretary and the following directors
were chosen: Mrs. Florence Sumwalt,
Goucher College; Mrs Suzanne Boil
ster, Radcliffe College; Maj. c. e.
LoveJoy Columbia University. and
Charlton Beck of Chicago University.