Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-03
OFFICE IN TRIBUNE BUILDING.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1897.
PROF. ANDREWS RESIGNA.
TON,

DR.. E. Benz. Andrews, presi-
dent of Browns University, was
sometime ago requested by the
board of corporation of that insti-
tuition, to either resign the presi-
dency of that college or, in the
future, refrain from promulgat-
ing his views on the free coinage
of silver. It seems that John
d. Rockefeller, the Standard oil
king, had made an offer to the
board of corporation Of the uni
versity of 100000, as a gift, if
they would bring about the res
ignation of President Andrews,
or have him promise that, in the
future, he would remain quiet on
on the conclusions he had arrived
at in the study of the great poll
teal economic questions, if those
conclusions in any way contlicted
with the interests of the Stand
ard oil trust or other millionaire
friends of the university.
Mr.. Andrews was in Europe
when he heard of the action of
the board of corporation. He at
once sailed for home and wrote
to the board to find out the exact
nature Of the charges against
him.
The following letter was sent
to him:
To the Rev. Benjamin Andrews, D. D.,
President Brown University:
In compliance with your request, the
undersigned, members of committee
appointed at the last meeting of the
corporation of Brown University, make
the following statement:
Resolved, That a committee con-
sisting of the Chancellor, Judge Dur
fee, and Judge Wayland, be appointed
to confer with the President in regard
to the interests of the university.
The resolution was passed after re-
marks from several members of the
corporation, showing more specifically
the reason for it. The makers of these
remarks expressed the highest aopre-
citation of the services rendered by the
President in increasing and diversity
ing the educational facilities and ef-
fciency of the university and multi
plying the number of the students re-.
sorting to it, and at the same time pro-
fessed for him personally the warmest
admiration and regard. ~ NJ !
They signified a wish for a change
in only one particular, having refer
ence to his views upon question
which constituted a leading issue in
the recent Presidential election and
which is still pred in national
politics, namely, that Of the free coin
age of silver as legal tender at ratio
of sixteen ounces of silver to one of
gold. & u ..a4.2
They considered that the views
of the President, as made public by
him from time to time. favored re-
sumption Of such coinage, and ex-
pressed the belief that these views
were 50 contrary to the views general
" held by the friends Of the university
that the university had already lost
gifts and legacies which otherwise
would have come or. have been assured
to it and thai without Oh ange itwould,
IL the future, fail to receive the pecuni-
airy support which is requisite to en-
able It to prosecute with success the
grand work On which it has entered
The chang hoped for BY they
proceed to exp lain, is not a renuncia-
ton = ct these views, as honestly enter
tanned BY him, but q forbe arance, out
ofregard for the interests of the uni.
yersity, to promul g te them, especially
when ,lle y to promul ate them vii appeal
most AZ: 1sis ~ the passions and
prejudices Of the public.
IL.LiIAAI GODDARD,
THO MAS DJRFEE,
CTS q
July s..