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Show -307- The Professor, in his then more than thirty years of teaching, had not. But he had underestimated his student*, his other col-leagues, and, above all, the Head of his Department. A few days later, a cablegram arrived from the Chairman of the Advisory Committee. It was very brief, saying only, "Don't resign. We are behind you. Letter follows." The letter, when it came, told how the Head of the Department threatened to resign. The Dean, in response, had called a meeting of the entire department. He had called it for a Sunday afternoon, because that was the only time everyone would be free to attend, and it was called suddenly. Many of the members of the faculty were at a cocktail party when word got to them. "You would have been proud to see how they responded," the Professor was told in the letter. "Everyone left as though a bugle had bloxm and they were responding to a call to the colors." The meeting had been called primarily, the Professor thought, because of the Head's threat to resign; but there had also been petitions and letters to the Dean and even the President of the University from students and former students of the Writing Program. The Dean asked for a vote, and every member of the department voted in favor of retaining the magazine - with one exception: the Director abstain-ed. The Dean announced that he would turn the matter over |
