New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-13

COLLEGE ROUDYLSN.

| A particularly foolish students rebellion is IN
progress in Adelbert College, at Cleveland.
! This is the institution which was recently
founded by Amasa Stone, esq, who endowed it
with a half million dollars. 1t was formerly
known as the Western Reserve College and
was situated at Hudson. Mr.. Stone offered to
give the institution the endowment mentioned
if It would remove to Cleveland and change its
name to Adelbert College. This generous offer
was accepted gladly, and the college was pros
perng finely in its new home when the sta
dents allowed their youthful indscreton to
lead them into very foolish blunder. 1t had
been the custom at the old college to hold on
Thanksgiving evening q sort of college orgie
called The Tempus," which the Faculty pro-
nounce to be "obnOxiOus and ribald" The au-
thorities issued orders this year that the GUS
tornary entertainment should not be held. The
Junior class fatty disObeycd the orders and
held the performance i'll a modified form"
The President thereupOn suspended eighteen of
the twenty-One members of the class The
members OF the other classes then met with the
expelled Juniors and adoptedla series of resou-
tions declaring that while the Junior class had
alone engineered the Tempus, their work had
"been approved by the entire body of students;
@that the Faculty had no right to prohibit the
entertainment, and that unless the Faculty re-
astored the Juniors to their college rights none
"of the other students would attend any classes
"in the future"
a committee waited upon the president with
these modest declarations and were promptly
informed that the Faculty had defined their po-
siton, from which they would not recede one
lot if all the students left the college. This
was on Thursday. On Saturday only seven
students appeared at prayers, and they wero
subsequently reinforced by one more whose
father had read about the trouble in the newspa
pers and fastened to town to remove the non
sense from one OF the rebels. Later on Salnrdaya
II ember of the Board of Trustees conferred with
the students, and after general talk the latter
drew up n paper in which they magnan!mOusly
observed that there hud been sundry msun-
derstendings between the Faculty and tie col
"lege which may have prevented an adjustment
of matters of disagreement before the late en-
tertainment was held" that they regretted
these MISUNDERSTANDING and whatever re-
"sults may have flowed from Them. and ire
Especially requests that the Faculty. on these
grounds, restore us to orr standing in college,
President Cutler tersely remarked Of this paper
that it virtually said that the "Faculty has
made mistakes for which the students are sorry
and willing to forgive them" and chilled the
kindly feelings of the students 10y adding that
no agreement could be made on that basis.
There the matter stands. The Faculty have
requested the parents of the students to exert
their authority, and we are unable to see how
that request can be denied The boys are I'M
mistakaby in the wrong. The college authori-
ties forbade them to do certain thing They
openly disObeyed the order. The character of
the entertainment has nothing to do with the
question. If the Faculty had ignored the dis
obedience. their authority would have been de-