[3] His presidency included the completion of the Memorial Union and a tripling in enrollment after World War II.
[4] Middlebush Hall, on the Columbia campus, is named after him.
[5] Middlebush played a key role in continuing segregation on the University of Missouri campus prior to 1950.
He was instrumental in working to try to deny African-American applicant Lloyd Gaines admission to Missouri's law school in the mid-1930s.
Documents in the University Archives show that Middlebush and administrator Thomas Brady worked to prevent Black students from coming to the university to participate in a United Nations conference held in 1947.