"When the Business School was first started," accounting professor William Morse Cole told an interviewer in 1954, "Dean Gay insisted that the members of the faculty of the Business School should be taken into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.  Gay wanted to be sure that the members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences didn't feel that there had been imported into this academic community a lot of people who were, so to speak, intellectual Philistines.

"He wanted to be sure that the other members of the faculty saw that the people whom he was inviting here were people of academic tradition, academic training, and could make the Business School a proper part of the University and not a maverick, so to speak.

"I think most members of the faculty came to feel that.  There were a few, of course, who were intellectual snobs who felt that the Business School had no business in the University and that the members of the Business School faculty were of necessity—from the fact that they were members of [that] faculty—Philistines.  But I don't think that was widespread.  Certainly I was greeted by everybody, as far as I realize, as belonging in the University."