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

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me almost a woman's tenderness
IL is not my fault. j can not help II.
But Is IL any wonder-when all
my hopes were rudely crushed
At a moment and by a power that ought, as
i thought, to have treated me very differ
emily. There was a hard man who seemed
to have assigned tn himself the role ofthe
crnsber. He would puff and blow and saw.
o YOU can't hedge with ms, this j. no
place for broken down ministers, the : ate
don't here furnish an inhrmary for such.
yOu must lock out for yourself, your pow
erty and your embarrassments are nothing
20 us, see you 10 that" Thrre. in a corner
stroking his fine beard, sat another. He
ehimed in. ooh, Prot. Gay, We nave
always looked upon Won as the good
member of the faculty, now won't Won
resignT" No wonder tbat-realizing at the
moment my hopeless and helpless situation
thinking of the insults thus put upon me.
and thinking also of my wife and children
no wonder IsaY that / should have burst
into tears. DR.. Msxwell- God bless him
was the only man that had a kind word for
me, for he suggested that / should be
granted another term and payment to the
end o4the college year, at the 1st OF August.
Well, David, aud 81. Peter, and st. Paul
and Our blessed Lord himself. the only per
iect men that ever lived, these all wept
many times, and why may not /?
3 u what will all people who have
any beart think Of DIR. Nuts brutality i'm
publishing it rs he did? With all OF nv wo-
mans weakness. and with all of my poverty,
l would not change places with him to-day.
/ distinctly charge that DIR. Nuts influence.
his teaching, his jokes, that float about
here like evil birds, his want of man.
illness and straightforward truthfulness. his
whole make up, is tending to a decadence of
taste, of learning, of morality and rever-
enee. Such being the case, he ought to be
removed. He says peace aud good
order have prevailed without inter.
ruption since 1 left the faculty.
Has he forgotten the dreadful row just be-
fore last commencement, in which MANY
shots were fred in the dark into a crowd,
and one valuable young man wounded? He
says there is peace. Yes, there is, partly
because there are not half as many in the
college as when 1 was in it. There are said
to be just about lis answering to their
names in the chapel. When / was there,
there were $50 or more. S0litudinem facit,
paeem appellat. Freely rendered. The doc
tor has made q waste, n he calls it peace.
The institution, in the DOCTORS hands, is
running down, and has been ever since the
Tilton affair-or the commencement 1872.
We have
A GRAND
when Wylie and Ballantine and Owen and
Kirkwood and Atwater and Van Nuys and
Thompson and Houghton and Miss McCalla
are in it. They have wittily been called a
kangaroo faculty, for while the body, the
quarters. the limbs are strong and finely
proportional, still the head is small and
contemplate. Let it not be supposed that
in exposing DIR. Mutt L am at all
disposed to attack that large, liberal
and excellent body of Christian people to
which he belongs. could not do anything
so wicked or so foolish. That people are
nearer to me-from an identity of doctrine
and from a common aneestry-than all 9TH
ers except my own. Most of my family are
among them. Now, considering the num-
bers, the wealth and the intelligence of that
body in Indiana, L think the presi-
dency of the university may we'll be
conceded to them. Give us, then, some
body like Bishops Simpson or Bowman;
give us DR.. Naylor, or our own gentle and
scholarly Buckley; or, better still, give us
some heightened layman like Judge Downey
or Richard w. Thompson, OF Terre Haute,
and L for one will be content. But give US a
man. A word or two more about certain
members OF our present faculty. Adler and
better men than the four senior professors.
Wylie, Kirkwood, Ballantine and Owen.
can not be found anywhere. What Prof.
Wylie does not know and teach with Won
derful clearness need not be thought OF.
And Kirkwood-our own Kirkwood-
a man of national and world
wide Ieputation-a man who lives
among the stars, while he modestlY and
humbly walks the eartn-wby it is simply
presumption in me to attempt to praise him.
We have here a quiet town in the highest
and healthieat portion of the state. We
have an intelligent, a v%irtuous, a cultured, a
God-fearing and church-going people,
people wonderfully well fitted to cherish, to
guard and sympathize with the ingenious
, youth who come here for their education.
They might, indeed, have a little more
backbone, and it wouldn't hurt them.
And we have q fine body Of
young men and young women in
attendance pou the un~iversity-not one
third as many, however, as we ought to
have-but still a goodly number of most
naturally desire for them the greatest ad'
vantages and the most liberal provision the
state can make. Brought up in the WALKS
) OF virtue, ofreligion, of pure morality and
+ true learning they will be ornaments and
T bulwarks to the state that knows how &c
/ cherish them, as cherish them the state will.
/ am sorry the doctor has put my name in
!, connection will another professor whom
would gladly have spared but for this de.
} risive iuXtaposition, twice repeated, wber
he says 'the trastees had exchanged theil
Hoss for an ass" Well, the ass is not 8
t beauty of a beast, but he is a patient, a Ions
enduring and a serviceable beast neverthe
1 less,a beast generally good natured, but wher
/. u~nreasonably provoked, will sometime:
recalcitrate. L remember once how the as.
, WAS enuOWeu WIFI tne power OF speech ane
his master BALKAN saved from the destroy
ing angel, when he chad forsaken the RICH
/ way" and was loving the wages of upright
eousness," and twas rebuked for his in.
} iquity, the dumb ass speaking with mans
voice forbade the madness OF the prophet"
, do not know that as much can be said foI
any other animal. If L ever get up a Goa
: OF arms the ass shall certainly be part of it
. Bless the ass. 1t once had the honor OF car
[ rying our Lord on its back. A word how
ever, for our good Professor Hoss-beg par
{ don, Doctor Hoss. He Is useful in the col
= lege as an elocutionist, and sue
5 ceeds tolerably well in rhetoric, though
| he is laughed at for his bonn.
bastic style, as witness several passages In
his report as superintendent of public in
|. %struction, and in that wonderful letter de