Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-09
EIGHTEEN STUDENTS Of Tulane University Stand on
 Their Dignity AND MAY BE EXPELLED From That Famous Institution. Railroad Station Posts Bring
 About tho Trouble.
AND MAY BE EXPELLED

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8.-Eighteen of the students of Tulane university were rather haIshly treated by the faculty because they declined to apologize for some small pranks that had offended the students and faculty ton adjoining Tulane.
 The Carrollton Railroad company has been establishing small platforms at inter vals along it's route, and in most places has been painting the posts white and red. Platforms were erected in front Of Tulane and in front of Leland. Recently the Tulane students were surprised to observe that the posts ia front of Leland had been painted with the colors of the sophomore class of Tulane, although the coors of the Leland are different. Some of the Tulane students, assuming that the painting of the posts with the Tulane colors was in tended as an insult to the latter and had been inspired by the students of the col ored university, were naturally boyishly indignant. Last Saturday night some of the more venturesone spirits of Tulane painted the Leland posts in black, and that is how the trouble came about.
 The Tulane faculty immediately took up the matter, and tue offeuse was charged against the sophomore class, but the class in meeting denied that 1t had authorized the painting on the posts. The class in a series of resolutions, however, expressed it's readiness to assume the responsibility and indorse the action of those students who had painted the posts.
 There was considerable correspondence between the students aud the faculty, and the Tulane faculty called on the Leland faculty and apologized and offered to foot all expenses. Ia the meantime, however, the college paper of Leland appeared, using In b,4 students. The paper called Tulane "a sister university" and declared th at Paul Tulane did not leave his money to educate such 'vandals and hoodlums' as the stu dents who had painted the posts had proved themselves to be.
 This insulting and abusive editorial nat urally provoked the white students, and when the faculty of Tulane desired to have the boys sign paper practically apologiz- ing in the face of this insulting article the sophomores stood on their dignity and de- clined to do as the faculty desired. The faculty was resolute in it's stand, however, and insisted on the apology. Yesterday the sophomores were brought before Pres ident Johnston and tho following repudia- tion of the paint act placed before them for signature.
 stWe, the undersigned members of the sophomore class of Tulane university, re- gret the resolution forwarded to the faculty on Wednesday and sincerely disapprove of the affair at Tulane university on Satur- day night.''
 The young gentlemen were given until 2 o'clock to sign the paper, and at that hour sixteen signed It and eighteen refused.
 A refusal to sign it meant suspension, to be probably followed by expulsion from the university. aa E
 These eighteen young men represent some of the best families in the city. One of them is a son of the president of the cham Der of commerce, and one is a son of H. Dudley Coleman, late republican candidate for congress in the Second district.