Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-02
WANT HIM TO STAY.
PRESIDENT ANDREWS ASKED TO
WITHDRAW HIS RESIGNATION.
UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES MEET.
VOTE on THE ANDREWS MATTER
PRACTICALLY UNANIMOUS.
Position of the Corporation Set Forth
in n Lengthy Communication to
the I'resident-Mnny Peti-
tiOns for Retention
Of Andrews.
UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES MEET.

Providence. r. l.. Sept. 1.-The corpora
ton OF Brown university to-day voted. att
er long meeting, to request President An
drews to withdraw his resignation as pres
ident of that institution. The request was
embodied in n resolution containing the
following to the president of Brown uni
verSity:
THE corporation of Brown. university
has this day received with the greatest re-
gret your resignation as president. II most
earnestly desires that you Will withdraw
it. 1T conceives that it was written with
out full knowledge of the position of the
corporation. With the earnest hope that
statement to you. bearing the formal sane
tion and approval of the governing body
of the university as whole may bring
us again into hearty accord. the corpora
ton desires to assure you that it in no
way sought the severance of our official
relations. which. so far as it knows. have
been most cordial from the time of your
acceptance of the presidency. The only
vote and only expression hitherto made by
the corporation bearing upon the question
at issue was at the last June meeting, and
consisted of the appointment of a commit
tee to confer with you as to the interests
of the university.
1.-The extent of authority thus given it's
committee was that of conference which it
fully believes you would unhesitatingly ad-
NIT was a legitimate and friendly exercise
of its privileges, relating in the terms of
the vote to the interests of the university.
which you have closely at heart. 1t is per-
fectly true that the vote in question was
occasioned by the differing views enter
| tanned on the one hand by you and on the
other hand by most and possibly all of the
members of the corporation as to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver by the
United States. SO f. at least, as affecting
the interests of the university, and the
fear that your views, publicly known or eX-
pressed might perhaps in some degree be
assumed to be representative and not mere
ly individual. 1t was not in our minds to
prescribe the path in which you should
| tread. or to administer to you any official
rebuke, or to restrain your freedom of
| opinion reasonable liberty of utterance,
but simply to intimate that it would be the
part of wisdom for you to take a less active
part in exciting partisan discussions and
| affairs of the college.
Having, as it believes, removed the mis-
| apprehensions that your individual views
| of this question represent those of the
| corporation and the university. for which
| misapprehenston you are not responsible,
and Which it you Sp mould SEEK
| full authority to conserve the interests of
the. university at all times by every hon
avoid in the conduct OF the university the
| imputation even of the consideration of
| party questions or of the dominance OF any
| class. but that in the language of its char
| ter, In this liberal and catholic institution
| all ambers hereof shall enjoy full, free,
| absolute and uninterrupted liberty of con-
| science. which includes freedom of Thought
| and expression, it cannot feel that the
| divergence of views upon the silver ques-
| ton. and of its effects upon the university
| between you and the members of the cor
| roration, is an adequate cause OF Separa-
| ton between us. for the corporation is pro-
| foundly appreciative of the great services
| you have rendered to the university, and
| of your great sacrifices and love for it.. 1t,
! therefore, renews its assurances OF highest
respect for you. and expresses the confident
hope. that you will withdraw your resigna-
| ton"
been made by nearly every member OF the
| A long letter from ex-Secretary Olney
| was read. in which regret was expressed
| dition to this. the now famous protest OF
twenty-five of the faculty Of Brown, and a
number of petitions. including one from
for for the retention Of Professor Andrews
| were also presented and considered. The
| last named petition declared that 'the
! future influence of the American univer.
sites and the interests of the free thought
| and free speech under just sense of ac-
action on the part of the corporation as
might naturally lead to the withdrawal oi
| the resignation of Professor Andrews"
| Among the signers are Daniel G. Gilman
president of Johns Hopkins university
| Charles Eliot. president of Harvard: c. h
Wisconsin: Seth Low. president Of CoIum;
bia; w. G. Sumner. professor of politica
economy at Yale: John Fischer, the his
| torian; William Lloyd Garrison, ]. T. Trow-
of Boston: Professor James r. Jewett, Of
| the University of Minnesota.