The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-15

students. / Will give another. i learned
once-no matter how-that among four or
five of the senior class there was a conspir-
acy forming to assault aud ehastise one of
the professors for some wrong they fancied
they had received from him.. That professor
| kne to be one OF the tenderest, gentlest
and fairest of Christian gentlemen. / knew
that these hot-headed students were alto
gether mistaken, and laboring under this
mistake and not stopping to investigate or
to reason they had simply determined on
personal violence. With the knowledge Of
ut least one member of the faculty i went
right into the camp OF the insurgents, and
expostulating with them, showing them
where and how they were mistaken sue
ceeded in disarming them, not completely,
however, until I had called in the aid of the
president, who completed the good work,
and warmly thanked me for what ! had
DONE. In that instance, it is manifest, I
showed myselfthe special friend ofsome body
else than refractory students" 1t is utterly
false that / made myself the champion
and special friend of disaffected
and disorderly students. DR.. Mutt
knows this, and every member Of the faculty
knows it also. Let DIR. Mutt show when
and how / made myself "the special
advocate" of such students as were brought
before us for trial. Let him demonstrate, if
he can, low and when / ever charged the
other members of the faculty with "undue
and unreasonable severity" when from the
instances given above it Is plain that they
were, as a BODY, one ofthe fairest and kind
est of faculties. 1 ever thought so, ever
said so. L never saw so patient a faculty,
and 1 had, as student and professor, some
acquaintance with three other faculties be-
fore / ever saw Bloomington. To show
how . false and unfair DIR. Mutt is
let me quote in full this sentences: "In the
same article he compromised the faculty bv
saying that if the students who took part in
getting up the resolutions concerning him
should be disciplined and suspended il
should not be his fault" What L did say
was, ''If, when this matter comes to be in
vestigsted, it shall be determined to close the
college chapel
AGAINST ALL PoPULAR LECTURES
and also TO close that particular hall from
whence a portion of the students ventured
to pass resolutions of censure against one OF
their instructors, no one will regret it more
than myself" Kind reader just compare these
sentencesand see il the doctor quoted fairly.
Having followed the doctor thus far, and
becoming wearied and disg1sted with the
attempt to answer lies and misrepre senta-
tons that are inwoven into nearly ever Y
line, / will dismiss this part OF the subject
with some general and specific denials. 1
have denied the charge thai / was the cham
pion of the refractory portion of the students.
L deny that there was any rebellion brew
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kind, L believe that he and his creatures set
it on foot. When it is considered how many
secret societies and fraternities there are
here-ten or a dozen, perhaps more-and
that through the great fraternities
to which he belongs be could use men-hon-
orable and good men, too, who would never
suspect that they were being used; that
these men would operate on others, and
these others upon others still, until the de-
sired influence had been created, and had
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mass of the pe0ple-citiZens as we'll as stu
dents. None but a great organizer could set
such a multitude Of influences at work.
The doctor, in his way, is such an organi-
yer; and, were his motives pure and unset
fish, he could in this way do a vast amount
of good. But his sellishness and his cunning
are so manifest that soon his influence is des-
troyed, or his plans thrown into confusion.
: He admits that he so engineered matters in
relation to some of my studies that neither
7 professor nor students knew what he was
J about, or what he had done until a long
l time afterward. Thus / believe the doctor
( was az the bottom of that net work oil
troubles which environed me, and finally
overthrow me. L believe that this was the
precise result he was aiming at all along. ]
> am sorry to charge the doctor with willful
| misrepresentation as to the little tricks
which were played, or attem pied to
| be played, upon me. They amounted
to nothing, anyhow. 1 was never
3 pelted with paper pellets, or with any
thing OF the kind. True, something was
put into my overcoat pockets as it hung be-
t side one of the blackboards. True, also
that my overshoes were once removed. But
what of all these? They were just the or
binary college tricks, and one professor was
= just as likely to be called to endure them as
v another. Some of my brethren in the fac
ulty were wise enough to nave wardrobes in
/ their rooms, in which, upon entering, every
1 thing was put, hat, overcoat, overshoes ant
Q everything else. The tricks of one essay be
@ ing made to do duty for a whole section OF
/ class l remember well enough. l saw al
the beginning OF the hour that there was to
t be some run, and watched for Its develop
r ment. / detected the trick at once and good
= naturally let it proceed-saying, pass it Oh
: to the next, and the next, until it had gon'
g through tour or five hands. At length /
t was confessed,
a AMID A LAUGH,
: ! and excuses were offered that they had been
4 peculiarly busy that week with an ami
n versary, or lectures, or something of tn,
| sort. OF course 1 laughed at them, anC
they laughed at themselves. and Their
y was an end of it. L knew i
would never occur again, and there was n,
Q use in getting angry about it, or attemptin;
to discipline them for 1t. None but a low
a and groveling mind would ever think of /
: long enough to carry the remembrance o
o it out of the room when the hour was over
r In truth, L was very little troubled in thi
a way after / got installed in my own room IL
the third story. While / was down on tn
first floor opposite the young ladies' room
in cold frosty weather, when some stray ant
unattached students had to 60 somewhere
y some of them were sent to my room by tn
doctor himself they were crowded in some
times until every seat, and the wood box
even, was ~occupied), and then, of course
" there was some confusion for awhile. Blu
T even that passed away and entirely cease,
as soon as l got into my own room. / wa
b told by reliable tudents that there was a
much noise and confusion, at times, In othe
% rooms as in mine. So that nice story tn
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