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-entertain such rabid ideas
without incubating them in
the minds of the students under
his charge.

There is a very deep and
bitter feeling of indignation
throughout the community - and
I am made to feel it in various
ways, expressed and unexpressed
and in letter form that
Stanford University is lending
itself to partisanism, and even

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to dangerous socialism; or
in fact to any questions outside
of the regular prescribed
course of instruction which students
are expected to receive
from their professors.

Prof. Ross made a very
pronounced tirade in Oakland
only a few weeks previous to
this last outburst, against
street railroads. I did not mention it at the time, although