The San Francisco call., 1898-02-02
Outcome. of the Request for the Removal of
 Professors.
Friends Of. Bacon and Clapp Denounce the. Action as Demagogism:
A Special. Meeting Will Be: Called @.. Friday:~to Reconsider
 *.:'. the Action.

BERKELEY, Feb. IA spirited and even acrimonious controversy has arisen among the University students over the action of the student body yesterday requesting President Kel- 1ogg- to remove Professors Bacon and Clapp from the faculty athletic committee The bold action is being bitterly denounced by number of students and alumni, and a petition is being circulated asking for a special meeting of the Associated Students next Friday for the purpose of recon sidering the question. It is alleged that the meeting yesterday was packed and that debate was. prevented by forcing the question upon the students.
 Editor Creed of the College Daily in to-day's. issue characterizes the. pas sage. of the resolutions as an 'igno-. minious assault by demagogues." He says:
 No more contemptible spirit of dema- goglsm has ever been exhibited in the history of California than at yesterdays s meeting of the Associated Students Eightyeone members of that body de- clared that harmony does not exist be- tween their organization and the faculty athletic committee as at present con stituted, and without so much as needing the appeal of pttiful minority. put the student community on record as having publicly stabbed in the back two faculty men whose friendship has never. been doubted. There are no palliating circum- stances. The framers of the resolution requesting President Kellogg to recon stitute the committee openly displayed their aversion to fair hearing and made their 1gnominious assault under cover of the righteous principle that students should conduct their own athletic affairs. That. refusal to submit the resolution to another assembly of the Associated Stu @ dents stands out at once as the most em phauc indication of what the weakness of the demagogues who attack our system of government would be but for the leth- argy of a .right-minded majority:
 Instructor Harry BeaI Torrey of the a Biology Department, who was a mem Der of the famous Transcontinental Track Team of 1895, and one of the most popular athletes who ever repre- sented the blue and gold on the. path, :. in a: communications the Californian this morning attacks bitterly the .reso- lutions, which he declares were insult ing and shameless. Torrey's. letter, which many of:the. supporters of yes @ terday,s. resolutions" resent. and threat en to =denounce, is as follows:
 There has never occurred. in the entire history of student ' affairs in our university such an emphatic assertion of " the power for evil wllich@a 5Wretched mi. 2 noritX~ may: .Wield as. was manifested in : the conduct and result of. the A S..eU. C.. meeting. of yesterday morning.. And no more pointed rebuke# has. ever been given. to the rightminded but indoient and care less nnaJoritY@of t he student body. =: = That the resolutions offered at :. this meeting were insulting, not only in their reference to the two" professors against whom they. were. directly aimed, but also: III thelr. assumption. that Professors Magee. and "Cloman couId* so far. violate their self-respect as to serve in. the places of associates thus removed ,.<was not slif- ! #nciently contemptble: for their advocates. Something more, was necessary: to make the occasion a masterpiece of fs.kind. Cheering Of that .vociferous order which is but a hollow. Inockery of honest 4enthu- sias1n welcomed the remarks of ahy speaker bold enough to aInplify thes:in- suits: embodied. in the. resolutions, At tempts: to- prevent a debate by clanaer- ously forcing the question indicated the treducer of the resolutions himself re- fused to stand forth as their sole sponsor the. uncertainty lurking in the minds of the promoters of the, scheme; as to the outcome of the. postponement of the vote was abundantly. manifest. e. -; =
 It Is time that the student body as a whole should express its. own opinions:- It is time that they. should begin to see from how many the spirit of dfScord emanateS which has proved so destruc- tive in the past few months to our ath- letic interests and our college spiritl-that is, our collective self-respect Tn football an honest defeat brings disappointment but no disgrace. But are we prepared to endure the amazement and disgust with which odr Palo Alto rivals regard US did they learn that we, students of a. great university, made furious and ungrateful by defeat, continue to turn, with the treachery of wolves, upon the men who had done their best to serve thern?+
 What a spectacle do we present. First we demand the privilege. of insulting two of our friends, and then we propose in order that they may not feel the keen edge of their humiliation, to tender them vote Of thanks for past services.
 Aside from the shameleSSness of the resolutions, they concern: themselves with that which is not their business. They demand of the president that he appoint Q faculty committee according to. the wishes of-the student body? No; only a I small body of agitators confined in a small room. who have. not stopped: to consider that the alleged purpose of the resolutions is to prevent faculty inter ference in their affairs. :.
 We have assumed long enough in the public eye the attitude of intemperate children It will grow harder with: time to convince others that such is not our permanent role. Let us cry no more for victims. Let us turn an eye in upon our selves that we may be sure that we have, not in US what IS worse than the. inhar- monious, a touch of the brutish.
 President Kellogg. has done nothing as yet with regard to to the resolu- tions He refuses to say anything in regard to the matter further than that he will let the students settle the mat, ter themselves, evidently expecting : that at the meeting next Friday they will reverse their former action.