WALT DISNEY, WHO HAS THE DISTINCTION of having brought forth from the Hollywood mountain a Mickey Mouse, is Harvard's most famous M. A., but Harvard has apparently been rankling under the honor. Dr. Robert Durant Feild, who was responsible for the award, has just been dropped from the faculty of fine arts on the recommendation of a committee of members of that department. The Harvard Crimson asserts that the Disney incident was the immediate reason, though Dr. Feild's general approach to art, which made his classes so popular that not all applicants could be accommodated, was a more fundamental cause. The Crimson says that hundreds of protests have been received, and it is reported that both students and teachers at Harvard are organizing. We look forward to a good fight. The spectacle of Harvard defending its dignity against a Mouse should be almost as funny as an animated cartoon; it should inspire Mr. Disney to send Donald Duck and all his other extra-curricular animals to Cambridge.
