The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-03
WANT HIM
TO REMAIN.
Action of the Corporation of Brown
University.
BY AN ALMOST UNANIMOUS VOTE
THE TRUSTEES OF BROWN UNI
VERSlTY URGE UPON PRESI.
DENT ANDREWS TO WITHDRAW
HIS RESlGNATION-HIS SER
VICES TO THE INSTITUTION
HIGHLY APPRECIATED--A VIC
TORY FOR FREE SPEECH.

Providence, r. l., Sept. -2.-The corpo-
ration of Brown University voted to-day,
after long meeting, to request President
Andrews that he withdraw his resyra
ton as president of the institutions The
request was embodied III II resolution
containing the following:
president Of Brown University:
"rhe corporation of Brown University
has this day received with the greatest
regret your resignation rs president 1t
most earnestly desires that you will with
draw it, conceivng that.it was written
without full knowledge of the position of
the corporation. With the earnest hope
tina: statement to you Clearing the for
mai sanction and approval of the govern
ing body of the University as whole
may bring us again into hearty accord
the corporation 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 oil the presidency
''i'he only vote and only expression
hitherto made by the corporation bearing
on the question at issue was Mt the last
June meeting, and consisted of the ap
pointment Of n committetssto aconfer with
you as to the interest of the university.
The extent of the.authority thus given
its committee was that expression Of con
fidence which it fully believes you would
unhesitatingly admit was legitimate and
friendly exercise of it's privileges relat-
Ing, in the terms of the vote, o:the inter-
ests OF the university which you and the
corporation have conducted.
at is perfectly true that the question
was occasloued by the differing views en-
te"taine1 on the one hard by you and OH
the other hand by most and probably all
OF the members of the corporation rs to
the free and unlimited coinage Of silver
by the United States, SO far ut least as
affecting the interests ofthe Univei sity,
and the fear that your views with refer
ence to it. publicly. known or expressed,
might perhaps in some degree be assumed
to be representative and not merely indi-
vidual.
at was not in our minds to prescribe
the path in which you should tread, OF to
administer TO you any official rebuke or
to restrain your freedom of opinion or
reasonable liberty of ute rance, but to
simply intimate that it would be the part
of wisdom for you to take less active part
in exciting partisan discussions and ap-
ply your energies more exclusively to the
affairs of tie college.
"liavnG, rs it believes, removed the
miSapprehensions chat your individual
views on tEls question represent those of
the corporation and the --univefst for
which apprehension you are not respnn-
sible,and which it knows you, too would
seek to d'spel, the corporation affirming
it, rightful authority to conserve the in
terests of the university at all times, by
every honorable means, and especially de-
string to avoid, in the conduct of the uni
versity, the imputation even of consider
alton OF party or of the dominance of
any class, but that, in the language of it's
charter, in this liberal and Catholicsin-
stltution, all members hereof shall enjoy
full, free, absolute and uninterrupted
liberty of conscience which includes
freedom of thought and expression, it
cannot feel that the divergence of views
on the silver question and of its effect on
the university, between you and members
of the corporation, is an adequate cause
OF separation between us, for the corpo.
ration is profoundly apprecintive of the
great services you have rendered to the
university and your great sacrifices ard
love for it,
1T therefore renews its assurances of
highest respect for you, and expresses
the confident hope that you will with
draw your resignation.
The vote on the subject was practically
unanimous, and taken after speeches had
been made by nearly every member of the
corporation.
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