Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
Too Much Rlasphemy and Atheism In
the Marian-Sims College for Dr.
French and Rev. Mr.. yincii.

John M. Marmaduke, members o
the Board, Were all honorary direc
tors of the Marion-Sims College
DIR. Pinckney French, Secretary o
the Barnes College, held the same
position with the Marion-Sims Col
lege and ORA. NJ Carpenter, anoth
er trustee of the new institution was
iviee-dean of the Marion-Sims facul'
ty, and DIR. C. III. Hughes, also
trustee of the new Barnes College
was a member of the Marion-Sim'
faculty. In other words, six of thu
nine trustees of the new Barnes Col
lege are taken from the Marion-Sim;
College faculty and honorary diree
tory.
DIR. French had spoken ~disrespect
fully of two or three members of the
faculty, and his resignation was
asked and given; while DIR. Carpen'
ter was a chum of DR.. French and
resigned because he did.
Then a member of the Marion
Sims faculty is alleged to have SAID
that French was put out for lyins
and Carpenter resigned because he
was asked to.
DIR. Carpenters explanation O
his resignation is to the effect thai
he and French were among the
original directors of the school; fol
some months matters moved along
nicely, but recently the faculty had
manifested a opposition to take con
troll into its own hands, and finding
it useless to try to stem the tide or te
work tremendously with these gentle
men, both he and French decided thai
it was better to resign than to contin,
ue in aposition where they could moi
serve the college usefully.
DIR. FRENCH ON HIS EXPULSION.
DIR. French admitted that he was
put out, but it was not on the ques.
ton of lying. The lying was involv.
ed. in a discrepancy between what
he told a reporter in the Summs
controversy and what the reporter
published. On that matter he claim.
ed to have the support of a majority
of the faculty, although the thing
was not pushed by his opponents to
a vote. He said: sInstead of max.
mig my veracity the reason for dis
placing me, their resolution stated
that | had been instigating the stu.
dents and had been contending
against the faculty, and had con-
Quoted myself in such a matter gen.
orally that any further connection
with the faculty would not be bene-
fetal to the institution"
DR.. French added that the real
reason why DR.. Carpenter and him
self were no longer connected with
the Marion-Sims Medical College
was because they had very strenuous
ly resisted DIR. Summa's infidel and
atheistic teachings last year; and be-
cause they on the same ground
fought DIR. Bernays' entrance first
into the school as a lecturer and
latterly as a member of the faculty.
He gave instances of DR.. Summa's
and DIR. Bernays' treatment of re-
ligious matters. If DIR. French ac-
curately reported DIR. Bernays', the
language of the latter was certainly
calculated to severely shock il Chris
tan. 1t was, DIR. French claimed,
this drift toward an infidel and a
materialistie college that had alienat-
ed some Of the Christian gentlemen
who had allowed the use of their
names as honorary directors, and
that threatened to disgust and
ALLEVIATE many more.
DR.. yINCIL's POSITION.
DE-. John d. Vincil, discussing
the matter this morning, said: "I
have been an honorary curator of
the Marion-Sims College from its or
ganization and have felt much inter-
ested in its welfare. Learning that
certain teachings were being injected
into the course, which were offensive,
insulting, d%ishonoring to human ma
ture and foreign to the moral sense
of mankind, I repudiate all con-
nections with the institution. I
must not be longer considered an
honorary curator of the Marion-Sims
College of Medicine