The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
FREE SPEECH VS.. MONEY
Brown University Professors Make Their
Own Com PARSONS.

own Com parisOnS.
Providence, R. l., Aug. 4-The remon-
STRANGE against the action Of the Brown
University corporation, on June II, which
resulted in the resignation of DR.. E.
Benjamin Andrews from the presidency
of the college, signed by twenty-four of
me thirty-seven professors and assistan.
professors forming the faculty, has been
mailed 70 every member Of the Brown
corporation.
Pamphlets containing it and the cor
respondence which passed between DR..
Andrews and the corporation committee
are being printed and mailed 10 every
alCmnus CT the College. If this protest
should be disregarded designations will
follow by the wholesale. The circular,
touching TIE Andrews case, says:
Private and individual remonstrance
is one thing: action Of the sort described
by the body which appointes presidents
IL. We submit, very different thing 1t
IS open 10 the gravest objections ana
resis upon theory which, if extensively
acted upon, would eat the heart out Of
our educational institutions-the theory
that he material growth Of a university
is Of more importance than independence
OF thought and expression on the part
of its president and professors, and that
boards Of trustees have, as such, the
right to suggest limitations upon such
independence
at is not to be believed, and we are
far from believing, that this theory, in
al its amplitude, was present to the
minds OF our honorable body on the oc-
casion named, and distinctly accepted
by them. But the logical connection be-
tween that theory and the concrete &C.
ton taken is, on consideration, 50 plain
and has found so coplete a Judgement in
the public mind. to the manifest injury
Of the university, that we respectfully
beg you 10 take again into considera ion
the principles involved. and at your en-
suing meeting to take that action which
alone can permanently relieve Brown
University from all suspicion Of il.iber-
atty or bias.
I'VE address ourselves first to the pc
cuniary question We do not for a mo-
mint adni: that ii stands first in i'm
portance. On the contrary, We regard
il as distinctly subordinate. We enter
upon ii only in defensive spirit. The
Statement mas been made in public and
in private until ii is believed by many
that the administration OF Professor An
drews bag been in a pecuniary sense un-
successful and this want OF success has
been attributed TO the course OF the
president in advocating financial doc
Irines unacceptable to possible benefac-
tors Of the college.
For the most part this inference rests
IN pure presumption. That some money
has tecn held back for such reasons is
very Likely. But that large sums OF
money which would otherwise have been
bestowed on Brown University have geen
kept back by the owners aversion 70 the
presidents opinion on silver, is surely
open &c question.
The annual receipts OF the university
are now mere than twice what they were
when DR.. Andrews came 20 the presi-
dency. II income be fit criterion. he is
entitled % be regarded as, in a pecuniary
sense. the greatest benefactor Brown
University has ever had. More than
that. lis income is. beyond a doubt, due
% him and his labors. for while in the
year ending April 10. 1889. the total in
come IF the university was So. 900. in the
year ending April Is. 1897. il was s15s.s2
The history OF American college ad-
minis;ration from the Dartmouth co.,
iege down. furnishes only TOO many sam
pies Of tie decentralization with results
from 20 :iica; interference and from The |
suspicion OF bondage.
Harvard the mental freedom ot whose
president IL not only tolerated. but prfz-
cd: better by Far 20 initiate the authori- |
ties % the Massachusetts institute Of
Technology. who valued Francis Walker |
80 highly. even If they had no; known |
aim tor ytl. % think OF checking his |
u;;Crances in the cause o, bims;allsn; |
or rather. le, Us say. better by far 70 I