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

supposed they could strengthen themselves
and keep themselves in power by abusing
me. i dismiss them all and will not further
trouble the public with them.
WHAT l have exhibited atovs will suni-
GENTLY show up the doctors misrepresenta-
lions and his treachery. Let me now expose
his inccmpetency. have already said that
the piece to- which this is a reply had, l was
assured by persons who saw the manuscript,
fully twenty wore DIS that were mi>spelied.
/ have letters by me IN which such words as
grateful" arespelt 'greatful." and there is a
well known Latin phrase written ssDeo
v~oluDte." | have heard also thai it is q COM
plant with printers that all OF his nsanu-
scripts prepared for the press have 10 be
carefully corrected before they are fit TO 20
into type. So much for his own iliiteracy as
shown by his spelling. FROM early exciu-
sion from the haunts and habits of good
society, he does not seem to know What
good society expects and demands from a
gentleman IN his position. 1t may be quite
as much his misfortune as his fault. But
surely he should not have been so stupid as
to have I'D. d." printed on his wife's card
after her name, for it Is generally regarded
as his work. In many other tbings-par-
uculariy In presiding at the college, and
In introducing sErangers-he Is painfully
green and In his public prayers
he Is not only irreverent but ~profane, In
hat he addresses the throne of grace
in words and manner ill betting it, and in
a style calculated TO bring prayer into con-
tempt. Once, he astonished as all at the
college, by praying God to incline some OBJ
noxious students ito go where they would
De better accommodated" Again at private
tables he sometimes INDUCES bis disposition
to hatter his hostess by thanking God for
"this sumptuous repast." The very last
time / heard him at the college chapel
May IL lest-he thanked God "for the pres
ence OF the distinguished divine who is with
nQ to-day Had hQ caf6 sthu ,nfpseror;nr
servant be would have been in good taste,
and would have met the requirements of
the hour. This lecturing Of students and
fawning upon oilers in his public utter
ances, mis-called prayers, is q crying indie
csncy, and amounts to profanity, if not
blasphemy. No wonder the students used,
sometimes, to pour out of the chapel
AND HooTING IN DzRFsIoN.
To put it mildly, DIR. Mutt is very inaccu-
rate In his statements. He said at the close
of the commencement exercises of 1872 that
more than 400 students had been con-
nected with the university during the
year then closing. The catalogue
after including the medical students
in Indianapolis, with only a nominal
connection with the university puts down
the number at 35S. In the Indianapolis
Journal of the 18th of November, 1872. he
says that $50 students had then entered the
various departments of the university. In
the same number of the Journal ne says the
alumni were 763. The catalogue of July
preceding puts down the number at GOO.
Quite a growth in less than five months. So,
also, of the whole number who had been at
the university for longer or shorter terms.
They had grown in four months from 5000
to 5000. In the Louisville Courier Journal of
; -ptember p last is a report of the condition
ofthe university which must have been given
nv Dr Nntf Uhiah cove sffha uniuarat&xv %
reported to nave added three new depart
ments, viz: law, medicine and civil engi-
neering-and that its faculty consists OF
thirty-seven members, and that the whole
number of graduates for the year has been
n:nety-six." o here is a number of par.
t~icnlars, which, taken together, make up q
grand total of educational prosperity that
ought to gladden. the hearts Of all
Hoosierdom. Bat things are not
what they seem. The department
of law has been in operation
tor 80 years, and the department of civil
engineering for six years. Both of these
are carried on here. The department o
medicine, established in 1869, has only
a nominal connection with us. It's
local habitation is IN Indianapolis, anC
while it is doing a noble work fol
medical science in the West, it is not doing
il here. IL has not a book, or a manuscript
or aver an anatomical skeleton here. i
40 va - ~ 1SfO III a hAOl
name, n nothing more, on the p~rincipl,
OF lucus a lucus, a non lucendo. 1t mus
nave been so engineered by our cunning
doctor as to get it OIL our catalogue, to swell
its list OF names and SO help the college
proper to make a bigger show in the world
If it could be so arranged that the medica
students, after finishing the winter term il
indianapolis, should be required to com,
down here and take a summer coursi
with our great Surgeon McPhee
tiers, and with our very learned
chemist-Prof. Van Nuys-then the medica
department could be brought into some rea
connection with the university, and to thu
advantage of both schools. Butt nave beer
drawn away from the point I was going t
make on our president and that is that wher
he spoke of these departments in the con
ference at Salem in September last, as new,
it was clearly a suggestio falsitatis, in
intended to deceive those simpl
brethren and all others who were no
in the way of knowing bette
In looking back over the doctors Onslaught
upon me, / find two or three points that
have not met. l will meet them as brief,
as possible. 1t is just simply untrue that
requested George Parrot to resign after h,
was elected to my chair. Mr.. Parrot car
not produce a particle of evidence that
ever requested him to resign. L jus
simply defy him to produce such evi
dence, either written or any other, sucI
as would be received in a court of law
Again, it is equally untrue that
published, or caused to be published
anything abusive of Mr.. =. or DR.. Mutt.
published nothing at all about them, good
bad or indifferent. 1t is, also, untrue tina
/ traversed the state stirring w strif
against the doctor or any one else. Let tn
doctor point out the wien and the where
True, I wanted a hearing from those wh'
had turned me OUTPUT my requests TO
such a hearing were always private com mu
nications, and sought to have been kept SO
True IL is that 1 do not see as we'll as
once did, and have to use glasses. s.
does the doctor-and so do almos
half of the faculty. believe. With the ex
ception Of my heart trouble, I am quite a
active and hearty as the doctor. He and
and three others of the faculty are all abou
of the same a%ge-being in the neighborhooI
of so years, some of us a little over that age