As Expected...

Gordon Clark Ramsey lays more of the blame for the Founder's Era difficulties at the feet of TPR than does Sandra Katz.  He does point out that TPR was never known to interfere with the academic life of the school and indeed that she was traveling abroad during long stretches of the Founder's Era, but he clearly feels she did not offer her Provosts a genuine opportunity to run the school.  If he knows anything about Froelicher's drinking or Kammerer's philandering, he is not saying.  The result is the sense that TPR basically forced them out, either directly or through her meddling.  In Kammerers' case, he cites "the pressures of conflicts with the Founder," as the backdrop to his sudden resignation, and he seems to take offense at her frustrations with his prolonged absences from campus - often for admissions trips, he notes.  Ramsey clearly does not know – or does not believe, as Katz does – that Kammerer resigned in part because some of those “admissions trips” had involved liaisons with his former secretary! 
Indeed, there are some interesting factual discrepancies between the two sources.  That they should disagree over whether TPR was at the opening of school in 1927 (Ramsey suggests not, Katz says she was there but exhausted) or on where she was for the apocryphal choosing-a-Provost-with-a-phone-directory (Ramsey: Philadelphia, Katz: New York) does not have much impact on the narrative.  [See future post on TPR's eccentricities]  On the other hand, where Katz says the faculty resigned en masse twice (1930, 1944), Ramsey says they resigned in dribs and drabs in 1930, and he thinks their resignation in '44 was just a negotiating tactic of Provost Stabler's.  Ramsey mentions Stabler's March threat that the faculty would resign but not their collective May trip to Hill-Stead to do so.  He says that when TPR wrote the faculty that she was going to close the school "this left the faculty with no alternative."   The effect is to make it seem almost as though TPR locked them out, even though her letter stated that she would have kept the school open if any of the faculty had stayed.
The picture emerging most clearly is that the structure of the school - TPR's own authority as the sole executive of the Pope-Brooks Foundation and the confused administrative structure with several administrators, in particular the Master of Detail a.k.a. Aide to the Provost - lay at the heart of the various Provosts' concerns, and the faculty/ies were much more sympathetic to the Provosts than to the Founder.