Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-18
THE AIR Is CLEARING
The Richmond College Trouble Grcdu-
ally QulstinS Down.
THE STUDENTS DEMONSTRATIONS.
Old Issue Fought Over Again--Intcrview
with Dr. Hatcher-Eiection Endorsed
By tho Baptist Ministers.

campus yesterday cVHu w
terings OF the retreating storm.
II is hardly probable that there VIII
no any further demonstration by either
fbo noatwrirht or the anti-Boatwright
mentor such tie two factions are called
and things viii henceforth probably move
along as usual
A, the regular Monday morning meet
inc AZ the Baptist Ministers Conference
Dr. Landrum offered the following;
s'The Richmond Baptist Ministers Con-
ference. having learned OF the election
~ Professor +. w. Boatwright to the
presidency OF Richmond College. take oc-
casion 10 offer their heartiest congratuia-
tions and 10 say that II ne shall ind II
his duty TO accept the Office, they VIII
give him their sympathies. prayers ana
best support"
There was full attendance upon the
meeting, and all the ministers save one
voted for the resolution. After the reso-
lutIon was adopted this gentleman, who
did not vote at ALL said he was In sym
pathy with the sentiment, but doubted
the propriety Of taking such action until
after professor ipputNAA6hN = ''~~NfN
THE FACULTY'S ACTION.
Yesterday afternoon al the meeting OK
the faculty the conduct Of the students
IN making demonstrations against Ger
tain members OF the faculty and the
BOARD OF Trustees was brought up and
considered. one OF the professors said
last night that Of course the faculty
had to take cognizance Of the matter
hut there had been no extreme action.
Further than that he declined to talk
II was learned from another source
however, that Chairman Puryear was d.
rected by the faculty to assemble the
students ct his earliest convenience ana
admonish them against any further de-
,oons4ration. Those of the boys who 80
nointedly manifested their dsapproval OF
the action Of the trustees In electing Pro-
fessor Boatwright will be reprlmanded,
Professor Puryear was also commissioned
70 caution the boys against firing pop
crackers in the college building. The as
eembly has been ordered for "Wednesday
at 2 o'clock.
A Dispatch man spent some time IN
the college building and about the grounds
Yesterday afternoon and talked with both
flcult matter 10 get at majorities on the
question nj issue Both sides claim the
largest faction. There appears no doubt
that the Boatwright partisans are con-
fined largely 10 the students who room
In the main building, and that the cot
tages constitute the stronghold of their
opponents
THE FRATERNITY MEN.
II "a nositivelv denied. however-and the
denial ems well fortifed-that the Greek
letter fraternities ARE in IT. as fraternl-
ties. The matter has never been brought
Nd In chapter. and as far as the Dispatch
representative could obs rye. the fra
ternity men are determined 1t shall not
be- The statement that the traternitles
were all against Professor BoatWrlsnt
originated in a rumor that the newly
elected president was down on these or
carnations and intended 10 break them
up. but an anti Boatwright man who Is
a member Of one Of the fraternities
stated candidly that he did not believe
there was any just ground for the re-
port.
The statement that the anti-Boatwright
faction held formal Indignation meeting
was also denied, and this explanation OF
Il was made: A number OF the Students
who had assembled in one of the rooms
ana were discussing the situation heard
that the Boatwright men who went 10
the new presidents house to serenade
him had decided TO assemble on their
return before Professor Puryears resi-
denca and hiss and boot him. The anti
Boatwrights thcreupon concluded that II
the enemy maze any such demonstration
the air should be filled with chickens
that had not attained TO the dignity or
flying without the aid Of some propulsive
power Professor Puryear was not DIS
turbed and the eggs remained intact.
The Dispatch man only encountered one
neutral and he Is not neutral now. when
informed that a student who was nom
partisan In a college trouble was too good
for earth and would die young he said
that If the Dispatch wanted to count him
as anything it might count him as an
anti Boatwright man.
The students rooming in the main
building are, as a rule, ministerial stu
dents, and those occupying the dormi-
tories or cottages are liberals"
REVIVAL OF AN OLD ISSUE.
The professors are not disposed 70
talk for publication as to the question
of any Of them resigning. They take
the ground that the faculty have re-
ceived no official notification Of the cleo
tion OF q president, and, at any rate, the
crisis will not be fairly up until June.
The suggestion Is also thrown out
that no professor could, I'm justice to
himself and his classes, put down his
work in the middle of the session.
All the professors whom the Dispatch
conversed with repudiated
the contention that the youth of Pro-
fessor Boatwright is the cause Of what
ever opposition TO him exists in the
faculty. When the situation IS probed,
Il would appear that the issue is an
old one. being fought again over q
new man. The trouble goes back TO the
reorganization of the college after the
war. when Rev. Tiberius Gracious Jones
was elected president Of the institution.
Some of the faculty, who were University |
of-Ylrgtnia men, were opposed to the |
Presidents system Of governing the coll |
lege and In favor of yesting the execu- |
tive authority in n chairman of the |
faculty. This feeling finally led TO the |
abolition OF the position of president |
and the putting OF the college under the |
other system. Several times since then |
the matter of electing a president has |
been agitated, and this same antagonism |
has been manifested. II is now said by a |
very conservative friend of the college |
that despite the action of the Board |
OF Trustees last June, IL was not realized |
that the body really intended to select |
any one president, and the carrying out |
or its threat, so TO speak. Tuesday /
night was surprise. This gentleman /
expressed the hope and belief that no
member OF the faculty would resign, and /
that by June next the whole trouble
would have blown over.
An Interview with Dr. Hatcher.
A Dispatch reporter dropped into DR..
Hatchers study at the Grace-Street Bap-
ust church yesterday afternoon and
asked him II he had anything to say in
regard 10 the excitement now prevailing
as 70 the recent election OF Professor
Boatwright as president OF the college.
when the reporter inquired II II was true
tnat he had been visited by party of
Students who came 10 express their dis
pleasure at Professor Boatwrights cleo
ZION, Dr. Hatcher said: YES, a very small
party OF the students came 10 my house
last Wednesday night and by demon
strations peculiarly their own sought TO
snow their Indignation on account Of the
part which they Supposed that I had
played in the election OF Professor Boat
wright as president. Their behavior was
by no means agreeable, but l ALWAYS
leave q good margin for impulslve youth
TO get in Its mistakes. They ought m
nave known that they had no right to 20
20 private citizens house and UNDER
take TO offer him iadignities In the pres
ence OF his own household. Judge that
they intended to OFFER to meas they dld
20 otners-this unclyil treatment as
nus,ee OF richmond College and on ac-