Education: Cane Juice

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Lean, highbrowed, toothbrush-mustached Dr. Uhler issued a detailed defense of Cane Juice, pointed out errors in Mgr. Gassier's charges. He said that the attack indicated the decline of "charitable spirit" and the troubled condition of Christianity. Nonetheless, he respected the Catholic Church. Though Episcopalian himself, he said he was related to twelve priests, three bishops, one archbishop, one monk. He announced he would sue Mgr. Gassier for defamation and libel. The American Civil Liberties Union, always happy to have a cause to champion, offered to support a suit to recover this year's salary in full and a mandamus action to compel a public hearing. Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury sent congratulations, said Dr. Uhler was lucky to escape "servitude in such a hole." Said Dr. Uhler: "I realize that behind -my dismissal there are sinister and powerful influences, difficult to combat. ... I feel like one of the witches bound at the stake in Salem. . . ."

Booklover

Officials of Harvard University's Widener Memorial Library were used to the sallow, bespectacled little man who habitually smoked a corncob pipe. Because he said he was preparing himself to be a professor they let him roam the library as much as he liked. Last week they became sharply conscious of Joel Clifton Williams, 49, of Dedham. Mass. He was under arrest, charged with pilfering 1,804 books worth $15.000 from Widener Library.

Widener Library has lost in all some $200,000 worth of fine books. It is believed that many were disposed of through a ring in Manhattan. Last year a turnstile was installed in the lobby; the losses decreased. Last fortnight a Cambridge bookseller reported that Mr. Williams, graduate of Boston University and Harvard (M. A., 1909), onetime principal of several Massachusetts high schools, teacher at Groton two years ago, had sold him two books which he thought came from the Library. To Mr. Williams' home went police and Library officials. They found many a scholarly volume—history, astrology, art, economics, biology—many, they said, with library marks, some partially deleted, some completely visible. He denied any theft, said he was a booklover, had bought books from a former classmate whose name he did not rightly remember. Mrs. Williams wept. When photographers came, Booklover Williams muttered: "This is a beastly performance." The books were loaded in a truck, sent off for Library officials to check over. Booklover Williams was held in $500 bail.

Edwards, Calhoun, Trumbull

To the $12,000,000 worth of steel girders, tan Gothic stonework* and shiny plumbing given by Edward Stephen Harkness to Yale as an eleven college "house plan" development (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930, March 9, 1931), names out of Yale's past will be given. Already named are Pierson, John Davenport, Branford, Saybrook and Berkeley Colleges. Three new names were added last week:

Jonathan Edwards College, for the famed Presbyterian theologian (1703-58). Graduated from Yale at 17, Edwards preached dogmatically, saved many a soul, wrote many a book. In 1757 he succeeded his son-in-law Aaron Burr (father of Traitor Aaron Burr) as president of Princeton University, died of smallpox inoculation in the following year. Princeton also reveres him, has an Edwards Street, an Edwards Hall.