The Nearing Case : the limitation of academic freedom at the University of Pennsylvania by act of the Board of trustees, June 14, 1915 ; a brief of facts and opinions / prepared by Lightner Witmer A.B. '88, Wharton School and College, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratory and Clinic, U. of Pa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witmer, Lightner, 1867-1956, author.

Contributor:

Molloy, Ruth Branning, 1910- associated name, former owner, autograph.

Hackney, Sheldon, 1933-2013, associated name, former owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983.

Nearing, Scott.

University of Pennsylvania.

Physical Description:

xviii, [2], 123, [1] pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : B. W. Huebsch, 1915.

Contents:

Introduction / Lightner Witmer

I. The Action of the Board of Trustees. 1. Protests; 2. The Real Issue

II. A New Method of Removing Assistant Professors. 3. The Stand of the Board of Trustees; 4. The One Year Appointment, a Legal Subterfuge

III. The Legal Issue Defined. 5. A Legal Opinion; 6. An Answer to Mr. Bell

IV. Religious and Educational Conformity. 7. The Trustees Differ in Opinion; 8. Religious and Educational Aims; 9. What is the Old-Time Religion?; 10. Which is the Old-Time Education?

V. The Relation of Professor to Trustee. 11. The "Employee" Idea; 12. The University: an Association of Scholars

VI. Alumni Support of the Board of Trustees. 13. "We the Alumni"; 14. The Supporting Alumni

VII. "The Alumni Register" Campaign. 15. A Salary Question; 16. The Cooperation of Directors and Trustees; 17. The Alumni Trustees

VIII. Assets and Liabilities. 18. Glittering Generalities; 19. The Growth of the Wharton School

IX. The Invisible Government. 20. The Board of Trustees; 21. Attending Circumstances.

Notes:

Brown paper boards with white title label stamped in black on front cover; spine wanting. Text has numerous marginal marks. Newspaper articles laid in.

Local Notes:

LD4526.N3.W5: Received from University President Sheldon Hackney, 2010 has autograph in pencil of Paul S. Woehlcke 1/25/18 with that of Ruth Molloy (200 St. Mark's Square 19104). On front pastedown Ruth Molloy, 3822 Locust St., Philadelphia has written "I had heard about Scott Nearing from my mother when I was little - his sister had gone to high school (GHS) with mother. His name had a kind of glamor for me - connotation and sound. When I, by chance, picked up this book among our things and read it, it was just at the right time - I wrote the piece for Phila Magazine* (*It was called "The Radical") - it was annoying to the University* (*someone even was asked to make a tape refuting my story) but later Nearing was honored by UP."

OCLC:

1140993