The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-12
NOW DEAN W4YLAND
Has His Own Say In Reply to the Brown
Professors,

providence, Aug. 11.-Dean Wayland
OF the Yale law school, a member of the
Brown corporation, has replied to the
open letter of members of the twenty
four Brown faculty against accepting
the resignation of President Andrews
In his reply he defends the position Of
the corporation and justifies it's action
in calling DIR. Andrews to account.
He says:
only two questions of equal moment
have come up within my recollection
the question that arose in 1851 and
the later question of initiation as the
halfway house on the road to repudia-
ton. I do not wonder that a year ago
the best men of all parties sunk minor
considerations, forgetting everything
else in the effort to save the country
from the gulf which yawned before us.
New England responded to these pat
riotlc efforts by a majority of 81, 849
in favor Of honest currency, and the
people of the northern states by ma
jority exceeding million and a half
That the advocates of the scheme for
debasing the currency should be able
to quote the authority of the president
of Brown university was a calamity
and dishonor, to be averted at all haz-
ards In comparison with such ideas,
little more of income or little less
Is a consideration entirely inconsider-
able.
at is stated that the president has
not given public utterance 20 his vic WIS,
but has merely in private correspon-
dence answered questions addressed to
him by personal friends, without the
expectatio or desire that his words
would become public; hut such is the
di gnity of his official position that the
influence Of his words cannot be cir
cumscribed The chief justice of the
Hawaiian Islands recently said: When
the advocates of free silver coinage in
the island are told that the weight of
the intelligence and the integrity of the
American people Is against their views,
they never fail to ask if Brown univer-
sity is not an institution of high stand
ing? It's president is with u.s..
while the letter of the committee is
very unhappily framed, making promi-
nent that which is incidental and omit
| ing the graver moral and economical
aspects of the situation, yet their in
| tentions were altogether courteous.
| The suggestion that is in the air about
| the president being forced out is as
groundless as the assertion that his in
| dependence is compromised A part Of
| the price of high station is an abridge-
ment of ones natural liberty. A per-
son who should be admitted to part
| nership with John Pierpont Morgan
| lions. Mr.. Gladstone out of Office
speaks with a freedom that he could not
use when prime minister.
''In 1889 I was member of the COM
| mittee to nominate a successor to Dr.
| Robinson. In writing to DR.. Andrews,
| who was my candidate said: sObjec-
| ton is made to you on the ground of
remarks made by you in public while
you were professor at Brown He
replied in substance: DO you not
| think it possible for man to speak
with a good deal of freedom while in
comparatively subordinate position,
who would not bray out his views
when placed in a station of larger re-
sponsibility?
"Your statement that the lifeblood of
university is freedom demands quail
| fication. If the only qualifica ton for a
president is freedom, why not at once
elect Colonel Ingersoll, unless, indeed.
Ex-Governor Altgeld has superior quail
| ifica tions?"
|
Prof. Wayland closes by saying:
"You will permit me to express my
profound regret that you indulge in the
prophecy which insures it's own fulfill
ment in these words: If the resignation
of President Andrews is accepted, the
burden and stigma falls on his success
sor'"
Graduates of Brown university in
| Chicago passed resolutions condemning
| the action of the trustees of the uni
versity in the case of ex-President An
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