On November 23, two 'non-Aryan' law professors were dismissed including Eduard Meijers, later father of the Burgerlijk Wetboek (Dutch Civil Code). On November 26, Professor Rudolph Cleveringa, the dean of the law school and former graduate student of Professor Meijers, gave a speech of dissent in which he read out the Meijers' letter of dismissal 'in all its stark grossness'. Cleveringa did not note the ideological underpinnings of the dismissal choosing instead to speak of the greatness of his mentor with the intention of preventing any reckless actions by his students.