Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-22
The University.

To the editor Of the Alerandria Gazette:
In your issue Of the 18th you refer to the
unusual amount of advertising authorized
by the new Malone Board of Eisitors of the
University Of Virginia, and add that they
might as well have saved that money, for
neither parents nor guardians are willing to
send SONS and wards TO u college presided
over by men who do not believe in the bind
ing obligation of pecuniary contracts, and
who denounce preachers for teaching that
what is morally wrong cannot be politically
right. y .r... 80. g;s.......,c -. ..,.r...
l have read this paragraph with regret
because il is, am persuaded, calculated to
produce wrong impression. No one can
be 4 more decided opponent Of Mahoueism
than myself, nor less disposed to defend the
cnormities Of the party, but let lis do justice
to all. lam sure you desire to do this, and
that you would shrink from writing word
to The prejudice of our favorite State insti-
tuition of learning.
the University T took occasion during Il
visit there this month to ascertain facts in
reference TO the new. administration. 1t is
truc--and pity Ills Ills true--that the old
librarian, proctor, commissioner ofaccounts,
boarding house keepers, and perhaps other
minor officers have, according to the ''libe-
rail- plan of operations elsewhere, been dis
placed to make way for needy regulators ;
but here the elimination has ceased It is
not true, as once reported, that the present
faculty were all voted out and then rein
| stated Tor one year. No such action was
taken, nor was the tenure of any professor,
so far as Is known, ever menaced The
Board appear perfectly to understand that
the question is not whether they will retain
the services fsuch men as Cabell, Minor,
Davis, Smith. Mallet, and others who have
spread the reputation Of the University
throughout the Union, but whether those
eminent men will continue to- refuse the
flatterlng Inducements to 60 elsewhere
which are never wanting, and will stay
where they are. '...''''i - .'-...' .'.....
In regard TO the new professors appointed
the least that can be said is that the same
candidates would in all probability have
been chosen by Democratic Board. One
of them at least is Deu ocrat Prot. stone,
the head Of the Astronomical department,
is las was, we believe, required by the terms
OF the Mccormick beneiactiOn) the nomi-
nee of lis founder, and only had TO be con
tlrmed. Mr.. Wheeler, lutea Fellow Of Johns
Hopkins University, was warmly backed
by Professors Gildersleevc and Price for the
Greek chair to which he was elected.
Neither, indeed, is Southern man, aud
this is really the only objection to them that
| have heard alleged.
1t appears therefore that unless the STU
dents are to be contaminated by borrowing
books through q Readjuster librarian hay
ing business dealings with readjustcr proc
tor, or boarding with readjuster landlord,
they will hereafter be just as safe at the
| University rs ever; and the institution is
just as worthy ofpublic confidence as before.
May not hope that the facts | have men-
TONED. will modify the unfavorabe anticipa-
tons you have editoriaily expressed, and
that the valuable and extended influence OF
| the Alexandria GAZETTE may not be ali
enated from the great school of which Vir-
gnians have so long been wont to be proud :?
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