I wonder if Professor Padilla Peralta was ever told tales of Frank C. Bourne (’36 *41, faculty 1946-76), a vaudeville version of a reactionary classicist around still in my day. His final lecture drew crowds to hear him explaining the fall of the Roman Empire as caused by racial pollution. An African student I knew came back from it laughing, “That man is a rogue.” That was 1969. Thankfully nobody is as relaxed any more.
I wonder if Professor Padilla Peralta was ever told tales of Frank C. Bourne (’36 *41, faculty 1946-76), a vaudeville version of a reactionary classicist around still in my day. His final lecture drew crowds to hear him explaining the fall of the Roman Empire as caused by racial pollution. An African student I knew came back from it laughing, “That man is a rogue.” That was 1969. Thankfully nobody is as relaxed any more.