The daily gazette., 1882-07-18


president Purnell, who said he had himsei
examined him. And yet, after all this, th
boys referred to above must give their evi
uenee TO prove to the board o
trustees that Professor Reinhart wa
not the man with the qualifications TO I'll
the position of professor In Delaware Col
iege. When was a boy and went HON,
from school with tales, my father, who WA
an old school master, at once went To worl
ana gave me what Is commonly called @,
good licking" ] but seldom made com
plants about the school, aud 1t would mo-
nurt some boys of the present time if thci
fathers would give them n lesson similar tt
what got on like occasions.
Your article says Gas one Of the facult,
remarked, the affidavit took the wind right
out of the sails OF the two professors" Did
not this member of the faculty speak as his
interests wished 1t should be aud not as ail
unprejudiced mind would have decided
The article says again, "And trustee has
since asserted that he was surprised 10 find
| SO much r0ttenness at the bottom of the
whole Affair" Thattrustee must either not
have attended the meetings OF the Board,
have been dull of comprehension or have
been asleep. think the latter most likely.
and he b just awakened to find out that
he has been indulging in a nap. lf the
meetings of the Board had been conducted
as should all meetings be wherein the public
| interests are at stake, the representatives OF
the press would have been present and then
the public would be apprised of the rotten.
ness, II any existed. For what reason are
the meetings of the Board of Trustees re-
CURED to be more secret than the acts
of our Legislature Are not both
bodies created by the laws made by the
people, and are not the board of trustees as
much the servants Of the people as are our
representatives to the Legislature On the
evidence given by the boys before the board
one of the trustees offered a resolution set
ting forth that owing to imcompetency and
for other reasons, the services Of Professor
heinhart could no longer be useful to the
college, and that he therefore be asked to
send in his resignation to the Board of Trus-
tees On this proposition, after much dis
cussion, the question was called for when
demanded that the yeas and nays be called.
Ihereupon, whether from fear of being put
on record, or what, am unable TO say. one
member of the board moved that the reso
luton be indefinitely postponed, which was
carried unanimously. So it is made difficult
to decide what impression the evidence of
the boys had on the Board Of Trustees
There is one of two things certain, either
that President Purnell was competent TO
make an examination of Professor Rcinhart,
and told the truth when he made his state
ment before the board of trustees, recon-
mending him as proper person for the
position, and ON the strength of which the
board then made the appointment, or else
what the boys stated before the board of trus
teeswas stated either through Ignorance Ofthe
matter on which they were giving testimony,
or they were stating that which had not n
word of truth IN It, For It is apparent / hat
the statement of president Purncl and that
OF the boys are directly opposite. In order
to get both parties out of their dilemma
we must conclude that professor Renhart
had suddenly been afflicted with an attack
OF softening of the brain, an assumption
which will not be difficult for any sensible
person who has three minutes conversation
with that individual to decide, is purely i'm
aglnation. That these boys did get a knowl-
edge OF surveying at Delaware college
under all the difficulties they laborcd mus
be acknowledged or they are a set of hum
bugs, for they are now advertising them
selves practical surveyors, and are also at
work in that line of business for me, and /
had the assurance of Professor Jeileris, be.
fore engaged them, that they were com
petent to perform the work so that If they
could acquire the knowledge Of surveying
without the field work ON which so much
stress was laid by the boys before the meet
ing of the Board of Trustees then the method
of instruction given at the college, whether
by competent or incompetent instructors
matters not, as ii must have answered the
purpose for which 1t was intended
The description given in your paper of the |
''heated bout between DIR. Kallocll and |
Professor Jefieris" is hardly worth notic- |
ing. 1t was simply a misunderstanding be- |
tween the two gentlemen. Aud part of your |
article says "Dr. Wolf, State chemist, after |
ward pronounced the statements of JclIeris |
and Reinhart as "tissue of lies" From |
my knowledge of matters and things con-
nected with the college, it is doubtful If |
about three years back, when there was |
some difficulty about who should get the |
fees of the State chemist, whether Dr. Wolf |
would have SO readily come 10 the rescue of |
the president OF the faculty. If he would |
then have done so, should have to admit |
that human nature Is n composition that II |
would be difficult for the State chemist to |
analyze. OF course II always makes Il diff |
ference ''whose bull is being gorcd." Your |
article says "a conversation with one of |
the graduates, yesterday, developed the fact |
that Professor Reinhart was unpopular al |
most from the moment he entered the col |
lege." Any man who fills the position of IL |
teacher of boys and who will not allow the |
boys to do in all matters just as they please |
is sure to become unpopular aud now |
particularly so will it be when the oldest |
teachers haYe become lax in their duties in |
regard to proper discipline in the institu- |
tiOn.
One of the boys who signed tine article
presented to the alumni told the Hon. b. T. |
Biggs that he was "afraid, by signing the |
paper, he had done Professor Reinhart an in |
Justice" This cannot be denied. Your
article says aThG qu0ston was asked, |
yesterday, how it was that Professor Jefleris |
came to be mixed up in the affair, and u |
long story was obtained of an internal in |
huence that is said to have been at work for
some time, apparently with the intention of |
ousting President PurnelI and making q |
decided change in the faculty" Why does |
not your informant state what that internal |
influence was, and who it was that was eX-
ercislng It! Why lie quietly down and
allow such state of affairs to exist to the
detriment of the college! Why not out |
with the facts, names, etc The person
who knows or claims that he knows of such
internal influences existing and does not
bring them to the notice of the Board of
Trustees for their action is no friend, but an
enemy TO the college. Your article in re-
fereIle to Professor ,Ieiieris says, ''lt is also
apparent that his own weapons turned upon
him, as the affidavit of the Neps Gorresp1n-
dent was a complete surprise to him." (and
well 1t might be, for he told me that the
Neios correspondent had promised him that
he was willing to come before the board and
testify as to the authorship, or at least the
influences that warranted the publication of
the article, and when the turn came for him
20 tastify ha eauld noi hp fouud and no