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Show -7- complete research on his next one. Despite the heavy schedule and low pay of his early Jobs in high schools and small colleges, the Professor found he fen-joyed teaching.1 Over the years, his former students had become his friends - often his colleagues? In fact? he had been lured to California from a Midwestern university mostly by former students (among whom? I? who am telling his story, must be numbered) - by us and by the fact that he had been born in the Wast (though not in California) and had never felt at home east of the Rocky Mountains? The California experience had? on the whole, been good? His university was a new one; transformed from a teachers1 college in the heart of San Francisco? moved to a new site on the edge of the city; and open to new ideas and methods? The faculty was enthusiastic and the students (mostly from lower class or lower middleclass homes) earnest? He had lectured there a few #ears before his appointment and found his audience more enthusiastic and perceptive than the students before whom he had spoken at Berkeley and Stanford. An event that had occurred the year of the Professor's arrival seemed further to characterize the mettle of the students? They had undertaken to disrupt a San Francisco meeting of the House Uhamerican Activities Committee in protest against what they considered its unfair methods of investigation; and they had been washed down the marble steps of City Hall with firehoses? driven into the arms of the police, who thrust them |
