Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-14
Kalamazoo College.
May be Deserted by All the Students. -
The Boys Tell Their Story. = You
Take Your Choice.

KALAMAZOO, March 10-The students at
the college-those who are expelled or sus-
pcuded, and others-are indignant over the
outcome of their little escapade, and there
is great danger that the severity OF the
punishment inflicted will permanently dis
able the Institution. The young men say
that all the, reports sent out concerning
the kidnapping were grossly exaggerated.
The professors did not seriously resist the
assault made upon them, appeared to enter
into the spirit OF the fun and were not in.
jured in the least. Their legs were not
bound w. w. Des Autels of Detroit,
whose punishment is expulsion, was can
didate Tor the ministry. He has preached
for some time in neighboring villages.
Many students who had no part in the
outrage threaten to leave the college.
Already 80 students have deserted tho
institution for real or fancied grievances.
This is the students side. On the other hand,
many good citizens insist that the boys
should be taken in hand by the law, and
the prosecuting attorney is considering the
matter. During the examination before
the faculty the students had not one TO de-
fend them. Last evening the boys not ex-
PEELED met and decided TO ask the faculty
Tor hearing. The boys passed Il resolu-
ton that all would leave the college IL the
faculty refused to grant them justice.
Feeling is growing against ProI. FERRY In
the matter for his making the affair public
by applying to the courts, and then claim
ing that he is on the best OF terms with the
boys.
Mr.. Arthur Tredway of Detroit has no.
.reived letter from his son, Arthur G..
Tredway, who was at the college at the
time the professors were kidnapped, and
who was suspended for the remainder of
the school year for his part in the affair.
The letter gives the students side OF the
story, that is entirely different from that
told by Prof Ferry. 81 suppose" he
writes, '%hat you have read in the papers
about tie trouble in the college. The
papers make it appear much worse than it
is. l will state just how the matter stands.
In the first place we started to have little
fun and we knew that the professors were
in Des Autels' room. The professors
knew that the boys were going to have lark
The first i knew about 1t was about :
O'Clock that evening. We had heard Prof
Ferry say that the boys could not do any
thing but baby tricks, so the boys thought
they would include him in the fun making.
We masked ourselves aud ran into Des
Autels' room, after the professors had
been there about five minutes. We made
rush at Des Autels TO see what the pro-
Eessors would do. The professors remark
ed, as we ran in, that they were Just in
time to see the fun
"When they made this remark we rush
ed at them. We tied and blind. folded them
and walked them about mile from the
college. AS matter OF course we ran
away as soon as we snatched the blind fold
off their eyes. l said to one of the boys
that the ropes, with which they were bound,
would slip down if we did not look out, but
we left them that way and before we were
out Of sight they were after us. We
reached our rooms and in five minutes we
saw the professors coming into the dormi
tory hall. This is their frsty year as teachers.
They made a few derogatory remarks about
the boys and seemed TO be but boys them
selves, and the boys took that opportunity
of getting even; but Immediately after
ward thought that they had gone too far
The general opinion is that the professors
took the wrong step, and it reached the
newspapers. All the boys in the dormi-
tory at the time it occurred participated,
and but six were out of town and they
would have taken part had they been
present. The ministers around town blame
the faculty for their action, and one came
up today and said that the faculty should
not have punished the boys so severely,
and thought they would regret it very
much, as 10 would send away the best stu
dents.n
KALAMAZOO, March ia meeting of
the Kalamazoo college faculty was held
Saturday evening TO determine whether it
should reconsider its action or not. Yes
terday morning they announced to the stu.
dents that they found no ground for recon
siding the punishment inflicted. The stu
dents have held two large meetings, but
have taken no action yet, hoping for re-
consideration. The classes were attended
by one and two scholars in each Monday,
and the college might as well be closed