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Felix Fejevary is the head of the board of trustees of Morton College, founded by Silas Morton 40 years earlier. He is determined to develop the college into an elite university but needs state funding. With the Red Scare inciting intense anti-radical sentiment, this means bending to the will of politicians who want to purge the college of any political agitation. Holden, a longtime professor at the college, has been labeled a radical for defending a student who was expelled for objecting to
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FEJEVARY: How is Mrs Holden?
HOLDEN: Better, thank you, but—not strong.
FEJEVARY: She needs the very best of care for a time, doesn't she?
HOLDEN: Yes. Then, this is something more than the fortieth anniversary, you know. It's the first of the month.
FEJEVARY: And illness hasn't reduced the bills?
HOLDEN: I didn't want this day to go like that; so I came up here
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