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Show -95- not, he said, accusing the labor member or the President of the university of consciously belonging to the conspiracy. They were probably only unwitting tools. There were, he said, forces alive in the land determined to destroy the American way of life. The Professor gave a snort of disgust and wished his wife were here so that he could comment upon this with her. "I suppose in this man's view, we, too, are part of that conspiracy,! is what he would have said. The motion finally came to a vote. It was defeated, but just barely. The Governor voted for it, and so did the young attorney from San Francisco. One of the members who had voted against it then made another motion? He had been busily writing something out on his pad, which he now read to the group? It was a motion of censure and not a weak one. It accused the President of all the things that had been mentioned in the debate? and it did so in a tone that just short ofsin-sult? The camera settled again on the President. The Professor expected to see a great anger on the man's face (there was anger enough on his own). He expected the President to offer his resignation in the light of what was now being said about him? But the President seemed more stunned than excited. "Good God, man! Resign!" the Professor muttered? so loudly that the dog, that had moved away from the chair when the wife left and settled against?the xiall, looked up in alarm. "They ought to give him a medal, not insult him," he said |