The weekly clarion., 1872-09-12
am very respectfully, yours,
IT i WHARTON
Our Educational HnteresfS...The
state University.

EDITORS CLARION:- rn-E
In ascribing motive to men for the per-
petration of strange acts-especially by
public servants, we are liable to commit
mistakes, and sometimes do injustice. We
| acknowledge it would be great wrong to
be unjust towards the present Board of Trus-
tees of the State University and their CO.
adjutors in the Faculty-simply because if
they get justice and the public understand
their conduct, they will reap the whirlwind
of public Indignation, to which they have
sown so lavishly.
1t is understood in the country, that one
of the last acts of the Board at its late meet
ing, and at, or after the close of the COM
mencement exercises, was the annihilation
of the important chair of English Litera-
ture, and the dismissal of the professor ut a
certain day named. The election of pro-
lessor of German-with Frencn taken from
the accomplished professor Quinche, and
matchmaking him Professor of French
and German.
This extraordinary proceeding strikes the
mind of every friend of the University with
amazement.
The Board are reticent on the subject-nOt
Il
though it has been called for repeatedly. 1t
is said that so secret and sly was the outrage
perpetrated, that even the chancellor did
not know it. What an outrage was this :
Abolish a chair-and the most important
one in the institution, and fill new one and
never consult the chancellor or Faculty I
When was the like ever done before 1t is
further said that the Ph. D's, about there
who generally know great deal about the
internal working of the machine We're kept
in total ignorance of these acts. What an
indignity to the Chancellor and Faculty.
We do not believe the carpet-ba@gers in
the Board are the authors of this outrage.
They gave their assent to it however. 1t
originated in our humble Judgment with
the scalawags in the Board and Faculty
about Oxford. Knowing the odous estima-
tion in which the carpet baggers are held
by the intelligent and honorable people of
the State, many things are done and laid at
their door, which our own people are as net
rather ashamed to father.
We submit the question to an intelligent
public was it right and proper to dispense
with English Literature, when the institu-
tion is likely to be filled if at ALL with bows
in the preparatory department? And can
English be dispensed with even by the req
ular classes in the institution. Dono some
members of the Faculty themselves need
instruction in the English branches?
There was nlottve then for crushing out
that department. Was it necessary to cut
one mans head off to make room tor another?
Why did they begin with falsehood. and
gQ
want of funds" and in the same paper add
another untruth by saying French had not
been well or properly taught? The refusal
to furnish the public with the paper We
have to speak of its contents as we hear of
it. Here they strike one professor down and
state the other! Was there any necessity for
another to teach French in Prof Quinches'
place? He is of French descent; has spoken |
the language from his infancy; has taught |
it successfully for many years, and at last it |
is discovered by these wise savants in the
Board, not one of whom perhaps can read a
page in Charles V in French, that the Pro I
fessor has not been teaching it properly.
And besides all this, after they demolish
off the Professors head for
want of funds, and save $500 and house
rent. They in the same document-appro-
pirate $500 and rent Snd spend $1,000 be-
sides.
Then how does the account stand? Lose
Ems glish and $4,000, and gain German!
Now let the Secretary of the Board come
put and tell all about the matter. II is pre-
;umed that he was the authorof that delect-
able document. He may haye gotten some
one to father it and and introduce il.
Ii it is not ascertained sooner. whom the
session opens it will most likely be made
apparent why, and for what purpose. the
1ew Professor was brought to the STATE.
1ax-paying time is near at hand. The
people viii soon inquire whether it takes
wenty Professors to teach one hundred and
"enty-three preps, and one hundred and
wenty-seven regulars, and four or five law
And purchase all the preps at the
'ost of $50 piece, and make the tax-pav-
rs furnish the money,
A new circular is out, in pamphlet form.
'egging for scholars. If the Faculty had
pent one-fourth the labor to build M the
Institution before the new Radical reai,ae
vas inaugurated, that they do now, fonr or
i've hundred pupils would have been there
ong ago.
A TAx-PAYER.