Education: In the Lone Star State

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Texas last week furnished fresh evidence of what happens to a state-university president who fails to dominate, conciliate or knuckle under to his political superiors. At a State Senate investigation of the ouster of University of Texas' earnest, liberal President Homer P. Rainey by the politically-appointed Board of Regents (TIME, Nov. 13), Regent Orville Bullington, a rich cattle and oil man, belatedly produced what he apparently considered conclusive evidence of ex-President Rainey's incompetence.

Regent Bullington: "Dr. Rainey discovered a nest of homosexuals in the faculty as early as September 1943. He did not disclose it to any member of the board until eight months later, despite the rules requiring immediate reporting of such conditions."

Senator Wardlow Lane: "You don't mean to say that Dr. Rainey condones such things?"

Regent Bullington: "No. We felt that he was not handling it vigorously enough and decided to take it over for ourselves."