CHAPTER 9Dean Spencer had been the reason for the success of Kane College. More a business man than an educator, he defended his methods by telling his critics a college had to be promoted just like any other enterprise; that it was his hard business head that provided the institution wherein the academic mind could flourish. And his argument, not without merit, had silenced most of those who had accused him of commercialism.
He was a small, fat, bouncy little man with tremendous energy and seldom stayed behind his desk during an interview. Mike found him with one foot up on a windowsill looking out over the campus. In a chair beside his desk, sat Vincent Wonderly, the vague-eyed, venerable head of Kane’s philosophy department. Wonderly, like Paul Bender, also had a public stature which r
