The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
Gideon PlaniSh
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THE STORY: As an undergrad Jate in 1910 Gid Planish had wanted to save the world. As an English professor at Kinnikinick College in 1921, he is well-esteem- cd but vaguely dissatisfied with his lot until he marrieS Peony Jackson, a student, who predicts Q brilliant future for him.
 CHAPTER IN
 THE Dean of Kinnikinick College, II Dean Gideon Planish - he was a new dean; in the fall of 1926. he had been so exalted for only a year had almost finished the annual plague of straightening out under graduate schedules. He was looking amiably at a thin girl with curly hair and troubled eyes, and he was chuckling.
 "This won't do. Miss James. Your schedule is badly unbalanced Three courses in literature! l never heard of such a thing! Advanced English Poetry and The History oi the Novel and 'Chaucer and Spen- ser What do you plan to do? Teach?"
 T don't think so.'
 What, then? Newspaper work? Write yarns?"
 I'm engaged to be married after I graduate" . "Then, good Lord. what do you want to take all this books-and- reading for? They're no good for running a household. What is the idea, anyway" -.-...
 T don't think I have any. just like to read.'
 well, l don't suppose there any real objection to your taking A lot of literature and stuf II you enjoy it!' ,...,,-. .a
 As she went out and left him in peace, in his handsome new oflce with its partitions of oak ana clouded glass, it's portraits Of Prof Edward Lee Thorndike and Pres ident Coolidge, he congratulated himself on having been so generous and so suave with her.
 Dean Gideon Planish thought pretty well of literature. lie WaS an expert in all it's branches, ane though he preferred the brlgh' hard rocks of Oratory Tn the l!V' erary landscape, he could plnch' hit any time for the regular lh' structors in metaphysical poetry or commercial correspondence or tn rules of play construction, ana h' had a fascinating theory tna Shakespeare was written by queer Elizabeth. He knew all about teach ing literature in both ot It's aspect --as an incentive to morality ana al an aid to earning a living. He hae figures to prove that he could III crease the vocabularles ot 1resiiiiei 3e.73 per cent in nine months.
 As dean and as the readieS sneaker in Kinniknick, he had con stantly to enlighten the puollc oi S,,ch problems as the recent Wo men's Suffrage Amendment, th' Sacco-Vanzetti trial, the progress Inf the Weimar Republic, the herol heart of the martyred president Mir. Harding, the Florida Lan( Room Gin which the Dean had los e1OO that he badly needed for pay mentS on FeOIy 1AO" PA"AAS''
 pedagogical significance Of the lac khat Bryn Mawr was permitting stu dents to smoke within the college and, always, the crisis of Flamini Youth: gin flasks and giggling iron automobiles parked in darkness ant such dancing as had not been seel since the Serpent and Mother Eve
 Dean PlaniSh was, as his pro nrietor. President Bull, frequentl told the press, philosopher and leader of humanitarianism. Tn Dean said right out that regret table though the Flaming and tn Petting and the Bootlegging Wer' there was less danger in yieldin to them than in talking abou them or in writing about them.
 He smiled to himself at his desi Yes, he could fairly be called UT fighting philosopher" But Whs was he doing here in Kinnikinici