The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-14


asked, am to consider this an april fool'
joke. The president smiling Though not
hilariously) replied that he wished 1t was
only joke, but that it was not. The notifi-
cation meant what it said &c, &C. In further
conversation the senior said that there
naturally was some feeling on the part of
those dismissed as It seemed to them an
ex-parte sort of affair. No chance had been
given them to attempt to prove their ''inno-
cence." One or two hadleft town before the
notifications had been made, and did not
know of their dismissal until informed
either by kilograms from their friends. CT by
the arrival ofthe notifications. The gentle
man interviewed thought that the general
sentiment of the students was against the
action of the faculty. in so summary dis
missing the six students without the
formality of a trial. As to the senti-
ment in town, il was difficult to state what
that was. There were necessarily two
parties; those who favored. and those
who opposed the action. In Greencastle, as
in all college towns, the affairs of the col
lege were the affairs of the town itself. The
point raised by the members dismissed, was
that they had had no chance to plead their
own cause. Were pronounced guilty with
out any trial and put under the ban, they
themselves not being allowed to show cause If
any they had, why they should be dismissed.
The six seniors dismissed, the ''interviewed''
thought, would all be present at the OPEN
ing of the next term on Wednes-
day of the coming week. Whether
the whole class would stand by
the six was not yet known, though it was
copJectured that they would
REFUSE TO RETURN TO COLLEGE
unless their companions should be re-
instated; or rather, unless the fac
ulty would temper their pronounced
edict so far as to allow them trial. Some
further conversation was held with the
gentleman under interview. but nothing
more of especial importance was CLEANED. a
readiness for investigation" was expressed
on the part OF the senior, with whom the
Sentinel reporter talked, both for himself and
for those of his companions who had
left town-two only remaining since the be-
ginning of vacation. Bidding the gentle
man good day, the Sentinel representative
hied him TO the residence of Prof. Tingley,
professor of natural science in the univer-
sity. and one of the prominent mombers of
the faculty. President Andrus being at the
time absent from town, and the few fleet
ing hours allowed for this pursuit of know
ledge under difficulties, the Sentinel ennis
sary fastened to place the genial professor on
the inquistorial rack.
But what the interview resulted in, and
some further facts connected with matter
will be given in a second letter. HIP. II.
ASBURY'S AFFLuCTION.
CHAPTER THE sECoND-T'oTHER sIDE-wHAT
THE FACULTY sAY-THE FIAT FIRMLY
FIXED-PUBLIC sENTIMENT-"ExTRACTs -
GHEENcAsTLE, IND, April 6. 1S74.-Having
so to speak, "girded up my lions," prepare
tory to seeking information to devour, the
next step in the burlesque" matter, was to
the house of one of the members of the fac
ulty, Professor Tngley. Knowing the uncer-
tainties that beset the path of the interview
er, and that it was also vacation time, the
Sentinel representative thought he might
perchance be doomed to let disappointment
like worm il the bud feed on his damaged
IS cheek IN finding the professor out, or
rather, in finding him gone, and in
not finding anything out.
However, the latter was not the case.
He found that gentleman at home, eTolv-
ing from the depths of his inner conscious
ness aud a microscope, the problem az to
how many specimens of the genus trichin;e
there were TO a few square inches of pork.
After few casual remarks on the subject,
and OH the exhaustion of the subject of
trichinae and its effects, the Immediate one
of "bogus" programs was touched upen
Professor Tingley prefaced his conversation
with the remark that they 1.-THE faculty. had
no desire TO rush into print. As far as they
were concerned, they would vastly prefer TO
have nothing whatever said on the subject.
They were biding their own time, feeling
that in the end they would be justified in
the course they had taken. In abiding
to the remark about the feeling that the af-
fair necessarily has created The professor
said that as fac as the faculty were concerned
there was no feeling in the matter. The
evidence which had been given them they
considered conclusive. The professor did
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At least he did not wish TO have anything
stated as his opinion. If statement of the
facts would be sufficient, the professor would
give them. He supposed that the reporter
had already seen the burlesques in question.
The reporter intimated that ne had caught a
glimpse at the documents mentioned. The
faculty, said the professor, had become pos.
sessed of evidence that was to them con-
elusive. The assertions on the part of the
students, already dismissed, as TO their guilt
or innocence availed nothing, as the faculty
were so we'll convinced that assertions would
not
UNSETTLE THESE CONVICTIONS.
The faculty did not consider themselves as
a JUDICIAL court. The reasons were sufficient
to them for dismissal, and for the present
they expected to do nothing further. As to
what outside parties intended to do, the pro-
lessor did not know. Whether the grand
jury or prosecuting attorney would take the
matter ia hand, he could not say. The &C
ton of the faculty was independent; they
had not taken their action without due con-
sideration. The dismissal of the students
was not equivalent to an expulsion. With
the latter was connected the disgrace and
publicity that dismissal didn't have. The
reporter asked If any of the dismissed stu
dents wished to return again to college In OF
having been expelled what steps would be
necessary to be re-admitted. Professor Ting
ley said that in such, as in every case, dis
missed man mus: show thorough and COM
plete reformation. AS TO the particular
cases under consideration there would be
nothing further done at present. The re-
porter asked if theE bogus" programs recently
issued were worse in their contents than
those of previous years. To this the Professor
said that burlesques Of that sort were not as
frequent as the reporter intimated. There had
been such things published and known in
the history Of the university, but it must
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