Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
THE UNsVERSITY-LE 5 HAVE
THE PROOF.

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The Oxford 1orchlight expresses its
qualification at the steady progress the
University is now making, and hopes
that in a year or two it will have at
Least two hundred students in It's
halls. So far SO good, and thus far
we cordially agree with our cotempo-
rary. Our contemporary does not stop
there however, but expresses the
further hope that the orato chosen
by the societies to air their eloq1ence
at the coming commencement will
write their own speeches, and not copy
them from the library or get them
some outside friend "as vas the gen
eral custom in former years. Is the
1orchLight quite sure of the accuracy
of its statement that it was the custom
of society orators 10 former years to
borrow their speeches That such
was the custom, either among the So
ciety orators or among the graduates
who spoke at commencement, we did
not know.
Neither is this all. The 1orchlight,
giving the University stab to the
full length of its blade, says:
In the years to come We hope to see
it University in ct, not governed
by politicians exclusively, and not I'M
der the control of the two smallest
Christian denominations. AS it is,
5000 members Of the church have
hn rvI. 1rE
Baptists and Methodists are almost
voiceless and quite powerless. But in
spite of such things we hope the peo-
pie will support it, and make it a sue
cess. The political meddlers should not
be allowed to squelch our educational
centre and chietest ornament. To be
| a Trustee of the University you must
be ther immodest enough to solicit
such position or be a lawyer and a
politician. We know something of the
manner in which the trustees VIZ re APP
pointed. Two or three men had pretty
much the entire control Of the matter.
Such things are wrong and should not
be tolerated."
Is it quite accurate, we beg leave to
ask, to say that the Raptists and
Methodists are almost voiceiess and
quite powerless in the control of the
University, and we turn to the Royer-
end professors, Messrs Redd of the
Baptist Church and Iangum of the
Methodist Church and to DR.. Pritch-
ard, that eminent and eloquent Bap-
fist divine, who has been selected TO
deliver the sermon at the approaching
commencement, for an answer Is
it true to say the University is gov
erned 10y politicians exclus vely Was
there anything disreputab!e in the ap-
pointment OF the present Board of Trus-
tees; if SO, as a friend of the Uuiver-
sity, We earnestly beg that ali the facts
may be blazoned before the pubic.
The insinuations made by the Torch
light against the management of the
University and against its Trustees
and their appointment are ins;nuatons
that ought not to be made without
being followed up by the proof Let us
have the proof. If the Legislature Yves
taithless in the discharge of it's duty
Trustees of the University or if the
Trustees have been faithless in their
duties or if the Professors have been
faithless in the discharge of their
duties, the public is greatly concerned
to know all about it. If the Univer-
slty AMI It's management can not stand
the light of the sternest and strictest
Investigation, let it go down or rather
let it go into other hands. Who are
the recreant Trustees and in what have
they been faithless
The IOrchlight has made iRsinua-
t'o1s that are calculated to do the
University irrepArable damage. Surely
1t will not do so great an Injustice rs
to insinuate charges and then fail to
give the proof upon which they were
based. Let the public have all the
facts and i'll the fullest detail