Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-16
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER I6, 1897
POLITICS SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN X UNIVERSITY.

The Phoenix Republican is per turbed over the appointment. of h. c. Hughes as chancellor and member of the board of regents of the Territorial University. The Republicans objsc- tion to ex-Governor Hughes is that he is Democrat. Now that's too bad! A Democrat is very insignificant creature in these stirring times of Mo. Kinley and prosperity, and Hughes Is the most objectionable kind of Dem- ocrat-a free silver Democrat. That is awful Whatever was you thinking about, governor, to appoint free sil- yer Democrat to SO exalted position as chancellor of the University, and thereby offend the stalwart Repub- Ecans? Why did you not import & Republican from Ohio, with gold stripe down his vertebra to the very extremity where his Darwinian ances- tors caudal appendage beganS
 But speaking seriously, is the posi- ton of chancellor of a university a political office? Must the political views of the regents conform to the dogmas of the party in power? A re- cent case that has attained some celeb rity by reason of politics having been injected into the management of a great educational institution, is that of Brown University, in which the cor poration of the university imprudently interfered with President Andrews and reproved him for his alleged heretical utterances on the silver question, which action on the part of the corporation was not only unwise but irrelevant since President Andrews had not in the remotest degree sought to influence the minds of students or the opinions of the faculty of the university in favor of the doctrine of bimetallism, but to the contrary, realizing his re- sponsibility as president of great university, he was not only discreet but reticent in regard to the matter. As the result of the blunder of the cor poration President Andrews resigned his position, and Brown University has lost thereby the ablest and best friend the university ever had. Chiefly through his efforts, during his eight years of service, the membership of Brown University increased from 26S 10 751, and has taken rank among the foremost institutions of learning in America. Realizing their serious Inis- take the corporation of Brown Uniyer- sity have humbly begged Dr. Andrews to withdraw his resignation, but the attempt to rectiiy their error was too late, Dr. Andrews having accepted the offer of John Brisben Walker, of the Cosmopolitan magazine, to head the new educational movement, to be called the Cosmopolitan University.
 That Dr. Andrews was recognized as the very life and soul of Brown Uni versity is evidenced by the letter of remonstrance addressed to the corpora ton by the faculty of the university, and signed by twenty-four of the pro- fessors. It is an able plea for tolera- ton and freedom of opinion that would have done justice to that great philos- opher, John Stewart Mill The pro. test of the faculty is weightier by req. son of the fact that nearly all the pro- fessors who signed it are opposed to the financial views of Dr. Andrews.
 We regret that we can not publish the protest in full, and we recommend its careful perussl to the editor of the Phoenix Republican that, happily, it might remove some of tho partizan eobwebs which becloud his vision.
 'Gn faet," i've quote from the pro- .esD ''it is not the proper function of 8 university to represent or to advo. cate any favored set of political, any more than of religious doctrines, but rather to inspire young men with the love of truth and knowledge, and, with freedom and openness of mind to teach how these are to be attained. It is to give liberal, not dogmatic educa- tion. "