The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-18
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1t will be seen from what Is printed else.
where in the INTELLloEScRR Of to-day that
the State University controversy is assuming
anew phase. Professor Berkeley the recently
elected Chairman Of the Faculty, writes
and publishes card. Wereprint the card,
and add the Sat Journal article which
Professor Berkeley makes the pretext oil
his publication, and which the R<gtster, as
the organ Of the University administration,
did not think worth while to reproduce
along with the card.
Professor and Chairman Berkeley has
produced a very remarkable piece OF writ
ing, the good taste OF which Is no less conspic'
nous than its logic. The reader will judge
for himself whether the State Journal arti-
Gle is abusive. To tell the truth is not abuse.
II the writer il stating facts, it is the Uni
yersity that is being abused, and the man
agement OF that institution Is responsible
for It. The writer speaks Of the "bad per-
sonal character Of certain members OF the
faculty." and he states in terms that Pro
lessor Berkeley is not one Of these-"Pro'
lessor Berkeley Ia a gentleman of.ine char
acter and naturally honorable instincts
The charge is not new, but an investigation
would probably show it -to.be true. We
have some testimony to that effect in our
pigeon-holes.
Professor Berkeley Gays that Professor
A. L. Purinton, Superintendent OF the
Parkersburg schools, is the author OF the
article which has driven him to take up
his pen. We have no knowledge on this
point. II Professor Purinton admits the
authorship, that is conclusive. He must
have felt very bad when the Chairman Of
the University Faculty confronted him,
charged him and at last confessed him.
But It seems that Professor A. L. Purinton
is not the man Chairman Berkeley is alter.
This Purinton has the good fortune to be
brother to another Purinton, who is a
professor in the University, and 1t is the
University Purinton that Chairman Berke-
ley Is cunning for. srr.H r."
Having found the Parkesburg brother
concealed somewhere about the premises
OF the Morgantown brother, Chairman
Berkeley makes public note Of the fact
and draws this very logica! conclusion:
at is fair to suppose that he Is aided and
abetted. in this matter by his brother"
Chairman Berkeley knows it is not fair TO
suppose anything Of the kind. Professor
Purinton Of Parkersburg is Of age, and
responsible for what he says and does.
Professor Purinton Of Morgantown is
also Of sge, and big enough man to do
his own writing when he has something to
say. The ISrELLIdEScER Is able to say
that Professor D. B. Purinton, 30 far from
taking any part in the controversy, has in
varisbly put the best face he could upon
affairs in that Bourbon bedeviled institu-
ton. ..
Why have Chairman Berkeley and "sev-
eral members Of the Faculty" taken the
pains to "lug"in Professor D. B. Purinton ?
Whyhaye they falsely and publicly charged
him with aiding and abettiag his brother
in the preparation Of newspaper articles :?
Professor D. B. Purinton Is Republican,
and we venture to say that the Several
members OF the Faculty" are Democrats
without exception. They have been I'M
able to find any pretext for cutting OF Pro-
lessor D. B. Purinton's head, and the
wicked brother dodge seemed to be just
what they were looking for.
ithe letter writing Of the Parkersburg
brother doesn't provide the Regents with
sufficient excuse for making vacancy for
perhaps another Bourbon Regent or his
creature-it may be that they can make
1t hot" for Professor Purinton, rs they did
for President Thompson, another Repub-
lican. We can afford to await develop
ments in this matter Of increasing inter.
est 1t is too early to say how good a
scheme has been Matched by Chairman
Berkeley and several members Of the
Eoonltvu ......