The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-15
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It is awfully mad. II that journal
which is so fearfulIy and wonderfully
made, were not mad, it would hardly
~condescend to call nice people ''iRcom-
petepts, nincompoops, and puppets"
But that is just what the News and
Observer has been doing.
The board of Trustees Of the a. 6
NJ. College met in this..city on the 10th.
Strange to say, the Board failed to ask
the News & Observer what it should
do, at least a majority failed to seek
advice, and that journal soon got red
in the face, and, as it has done before
made "a ass" of itself.
The Board saw proper and did make
some changes in the faculty Of the A.
q N. College and State Experiment
Station. These changes may have been
right, may have been wrong. At any
rate the Board must bear the RESPONSE
bility.
We have only the highest respect
for Prof. Irby, State Chemist Battle,
Prof. Yates, Entomologist Mccarthy,
Assistant Chemists, Kllgo, Allen, As
bury, Miller and others who were dis.
placed. They are all capable men, so
far as we know. But the Board had
the power TO remove them and exer-
cised it. We believe good men have
been promoted to the positions, and
until it is proven Otherwise we shall in
duIge in no harsh criticism OF the
Board.
But we want to emphasize one fact.
1t is said that it is wrong to csssFTy Che
schools or Agricultural Department
into politics.. In this the Democrats
have set the pace. They mapped out
the programme. While the Board only
'deposed about one-third of the Demo
Gratis connected with the A. & M. Col
Iege and one-half those in the Expert
ment Station, though they had full
power to remove every man, we may
feel sure that had it been the other
way, had those places been filed with
Populists or Republicans, and a new
Democratic board assumed charge,
that Democratic Board would have re-
moved eUery mar before forty toads
could have swallowed one fly.
How was it two or three years agoI
Prof. Chamberlain, who was the only
Republican employed at the A.
& II. College, was removed, or
resigned" after holding the posi-
ton some time. Mr.. Hubbard, the
Steward of the College, a o~ne-legged
Confederate soldier, became a Populist
while holding the position, and the
Democrats abolished the position and
gave it to another man, q Democrat,
who was connected with the College.
With this record before us, we think
all the Democrats might have felt that
unless a good deal more of the 'do
good for evil" vas practiced than is
customary in politics, they would all
go. AS it is, the President of the A. &
M. College and six professors, allDemo-
Gratis, are retained. We think the
Democrats are making q pretty show
of themselves when they raise cane
about the removals and do not return
thanks for those retained.
The Board of Trustees last week
made the following elections: Prof. f.
E Emery, of the Experiment Station,
succeeds Prof. Irby as Professor of
Agriculture. Prof. j.. j. Britt, of
Mitchell county, succeeds Prof. R. E.
L. Yates as Professor of Mathematics.
Prof. E. g. Butler, of Vance county, is
made Assistant Professor of Eng
lish, Secretary of the Board of Trus
tees and Secretary Of the Faculty.
We feel sure that the usefulness of
the College has not been impaired by
these changes, and trust that the Insti
tuition will be even better than ever be
fore.
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