Charges against Dean Alexander, it was also learned yesterday, led to an hour-and-a-half conference, from which the press and outsiders were barred, between faculty members and students. More than 200 persons attended the session, held under the auspices of the College Sociology Club.
Allegations that Alexander has cooperated with the Order of ’76 and welcomes every possible opportunity to speak at public meetings in defense of Hitlerism were discussed, it was disclosed.
It was pointed out that although from forty to fifty per cent of the New College student body is Jewish, no direct evidence that Alexander has been discriminatory in his attitude toward undergraduates has been adduced.
“However,” the Spectator reports, “a Jewish member of the Teachers College faculty disclosed that Professor Alexander told him last Spring, ‘We have good reason to hate the Jews. There must be something in their make-up that accounts for the way they have been treated and must be treated. The Jews contributed to the ruin of Germany.’ “
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