Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-04-01
The University Row.


account of the rebellion by the students
of the university against the military
rule of the Italian martinez, Lomia.
One Lancaster boy, Fred p Meyer. was
among the ''recalcitrant" students.
There was great excitement among
the university students yesterday and
till nearly midnight last night. owing
to the presence of the board of regents
in special session and the strial,n as it
were. oftwenty-five seniors and juniors,
who had involved themselves In trouble
by declining to leave the gymnasium
last Thursday afternoon, during the
drill hour, after having been ordered to
do so by the military professor, Col.
Luigi Lomia. As announced in the
State Journal last evening, the board
met at two o'clock in the secretary's
office. the following members being
present: Messrs Paul, Keyes, Graham,
Raymer. Smith, Hit, Williams,
McMynn. Koeppen and Marshall. The
rebellious students who had been cited |
to appear before the board, were ush-
cred into the presence of that body in |
squads of hive and were asked the fol- |
lowing questions:
Were you present at the gymnasium at the |
time the trouble occurrcdy
Did you hear Col. Lomia read an order for Won |
TO leave the gymnasium
Did Col Ionic request you to leave?
Did you leavei
All the questions were answered in |
the affirmative except the last, to
which the students replied negatively.
After these questions had been asked
and answered, the squads were permit.
ted to rejoin their sympathetic COM
rades, who crowded the outer Office of
the secretary. A committee of four of |
the recalcitrants-Me Chandler,
Roe. Richmond and Briggs - then
waited on the regents to formally rep
resent the students. They were pa
tiently heard by the board and various
questions were asked them in regard to
the trouble. The board then took the
matter under consideration, and at 5
O'Clock submitted to the students a
document for their signature. This
was drafted carefully and appeared to
an unbiased mind to be fair way of
settling the difficulty; but the apology
to the military professor, which it con-
tanned, caused the students to decline
to sign it, and it was returned to the
board. with the declaration by the stu
dents that. if they had violated any or
der of the board, they were willing to
apologize to the board. The regents
then submitted somwhat modified
paper to the boys, but the features OBJ
noxious to them were not entirely I
exempt from it and it was rejected.
At o'clock, the students adopted res
olutions to the effect that they had not
meant to violate any rules made by
authority, and that what
seemed to be violation on their part
was simply protest against what they
as an unjust and arbitrary
order of Col. Lomia. These were sent
in to the regents, who soon after took
a recess for supper They convened
again at 1880 o'clock and adjourned at
IL, till this morning without having
reached any satisfactory conclusion in
regard to the trouble. Throughout the
~ ening, the students awaited results
in the Park hotel, and, as Sme went on,
they seemed more determined than
ever not to yield.
This morning the board reassembled
at $50 o'clock, and finally adopted a
resolution for presentation to the stu
dents, which was in substance that a
rule of the regents had been broken,
but that as the students had evidently |
labored under misapprehensien as to
whether its PRONUNCIATION by Col. Lomia
was authorized or not, there would be |
no suspensions, and the whole matter
would be dropped. This decision was
all the students hoped to secure and /
naturally they feel highly gratilied at
the result of the disturbance.