Frank's Policy

Dr. Glenn Frank, who since his elevation to the presidential chair of the University of Wisconsin has taken to writing newspaper articles in the manner of Dr. Frank Crane and Publicist Bruce Barton, last week outlined to a newspaper reporter the policy he intends to pursue in his new incumbency. There is an issue at Wisconsin: the regents' resolution to accept no more endowment funds from incorporated educational foundations (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). But Dr. Frank has only just gone on the scene. He is not one to commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant, I am willing to be as reactionary as the Czar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday. ... I feel the only person worth bothering about is a Realist. [Conservatism, liberalism and radicalism are] three air-tight and often thought-tight compartments. . . . We park ourselves behind these barricades and begin to approach things in terms of emotion."