New-York tribune., 1874-10-19
DIR. SEARS and 10 OURNALISTIC COURTESY

The Rev. DR.. Sears, General Agent OF the
Peabody Educational Fund has written letter accusing
reporter Of The TRIBUNE OF bad faith in printing on
Saturday report of the proceedings OF the trustees on
Friday last which letter The Erenng Post has published
$ follows:
To tho Editors Of The Ersning Post:
Will you oblige me- aud the cause Of truth and honor
able Journalism WELL by stating in your columns TINS
respecting the proceedings OF the Trustees OF the Pea
body Educational Fund" is not only inaccurate bnt.
direct opposite OF the rutb the report OF the general
agent and the unanimous action OF the Board Board
Of atts%ptns to estapllsn mixed sshools
a. the south BY oo%psy estiat99Sn 9S Pssss paSe
the press that such facts respecting the
of tue Board as the article does contaa were Obtained
that nothing on the subject should appear
in its columns before Monday morning. ana that IN tne
ings OF tue Board might appear simultaneously 10 an e
has been grossly violated by the publication of The PRIB
UNEs article TINS morning. B SEARS, Geherai Agent.
e,c-York Oct. IT. 1874.
Last evening Q TRIBUNE reporter called upon DR..
Sears and full explanation resulted in convincing that
gentleman that misapprehension existed. THE TRIB
UNs reporter obtained from DR.. Sears about noon on
Friday proofslps Of the annual report OF the General
Agent-a document which would apparently MI from
page to page and q half Of The TRIBUSE-pledging
himself that it should not DO printed Or used IN any
manner until Monday. AT the same time the same re-
Of the of the trustees OF which he made full
notes In Dr. Sears's presence. These notes contain
memoranda OF all references made In saturdays
TRIBUNE the contents OF the General Agents report
Dr. Sears claims that the pledge not to publish until
Monday applied to the quarter OF column report OF
the proceedings Of the trustees taken down IN rough
notes by the reporter. as we'll as to the eight or
ten column report OF the General Agent that
THE TRIBUNE was not only TO put this long docu-
men in type and furnish 1t to the other papers, but
also to delay the 1t had obtained OF
the Boards proceedings, and furnish IL ike
wise to the press OF New-York ana Boston.
The reporter did not so understand the matter ana
certainly reported to the office that tho oDlgation
applied to the printed document only, aud was told
to write up his for Saturdays paper He was d.
rected to return the printed report to Dr. Sears with re-
grets that THE TRIBUNE could not publish 1t In
full and returned promptly on Friday afternoon
with written explain atoms. The reporter Is positive
that nothing said to convey the idea or Impress IL
upon his mind that pledge extended to the proceed
ings Of the Board. On this point Dr. Sears has ad'
dressed to THE TRIBUNE the following:
TO the Editor Of The Trtbune.
SIR: Your reporter has explained to me that what
about his 81 not sns to ay'%s
tees Till Monday morning, simultaneously Win
the other papers Is true Dos 'I sicn NO Was in
type and the extracts made from our RECORDS ana
Snescn this statement Of his in regard
standing OF the case D. ofAhS'
Fifth Arenne Hotel.
nit is for Dr. Sears however to state that he wrote
letter pronouncing TRIBUSEs report not only mac
curate but particular matter the direct opposite
of the truth that last night he went over the
article sentence by sentence he pronounced each one
accurate save the one ou subject of mixed schools
and that that does not at all assert the thing
which he denies namely that the Board is in favor OF
establishing mixed schools by compulsory legislation
But the sentence did convey wrong impression, and
il due to Dr. Sears and the trustees to state, with
some emphasis that however mixed schools may have
seemed in places, both the General Agent
and the Board utterly dsapproye Of effort to esab
lish them by law.