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A GREATER GETTYSBURG relationships between boards of trustees and members of faculties."131 It is obvious that neither President Hanson nor the trustees were willing to move as far or as fast as Gies believed they should, if they were to avoid an outside investigation. In his later letters Gies lamented the fact that the board had not acted at its first regular opportunity, in December 1925, and that it did not appear willing to adopt any document which contained a statement of up-to-date tenure principles and procedures. "If my intervention was a failure," he wrote on March 23, 1926, "I would wish to express regret for the fact and ask to be relieved of any further relation to the situation." Finally, on June 8, 1926 the trustees designated their executive committee "a special committee on hearing" to deal with "any such matters of promotion and demotion as may from time to time develop." Further, they accorded to any professor whose dismissal was being considered "the privilege of appearing before this committee on hearing before final action on the part of the Board." Assured in advance that this resolution was likely to be adopted, Gies concluded (April 24, 1926) that, while it fell short of what he had recommended, it "would eliminate all remaining doubt on the matter." He told the president that "I have eliminated, I believe, all possibility of misunderstanding regarding the situation." This action, which was surely no "drastic reform," was the only change which the board of trustees made in its 1884 tenure rule until 1952.132 The personnel problems of 1922-1925 probably help to explain why an A.A.U.P. chapter was organized at Gettysburg College during those years. The national organization was founded in 1915 for the purposes of enunciating and defending both principles and practices of academic freedom and tenure, at a time when some college and university administrators and trustees were dismissing faculty members whose political, economic, religious, or social views and statements were different from their own. The first A.A.U.P. faculty member at Gettysburg was the philosophy professor, Charles F. Sanders (1920). Louis A. Parsons (1923), in physics, was the second, and Frank H. Clutz (1924), in engineering, was the third. The A.A.U.P. constitution provided that seven members in an institution could organize a local chapter. With twelve members, the Gettysburg chapter came into existence in the spring of 1924. President Hanson consulted with its president when repercussions from 131The statements were approved at a meeting in January 1925 called by the American Gouncil on Education and attended by representatives of nine national educational agencies. The text was reprinted in the A.A.U.P. Bulletin (February 1925], pp. 100-101. 132The correspondence between Gies and Hanson is in GCA. 49