The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-13

| knowing less about farming than | do
! about the German Kali monopoly, OF
recommending Potash. 1t appears in his
articles with the faithful regularity of
an cid friend. But do not believe that
! the Professor once ahsent-mindedly
recommended it as Il tooth-powder l
/ think one Of his students started that
report.
Now there are my changes made good.
! OF his many mediterranean insinuating
articles in the press, of his unpopularity
| with the boys of the tricks they have
! played upon him showing no respect
| whatever. of the little esteem in which
| he is held by prominent alumni, of his
! habit of talking of what he has done and
| is going to DO and doing nothing at his
work, and of many allegations made
! against him to me | shall not ask space
| to speak here. | have not given abuse
| for abuse. Where he gave epithetS. /
| have given facts; where he gave denials,
| | have given corroborating details: all
! the cIsithets of young" ignorant,
malicious" ''mendacious" of his lovely
vocabulary will not defend him against
| the simple facts given above.
With so much said, because he de-
| manded that | say it. desire to apollo
gize for the Professor in conclusion, be-
cause | ann sorry for him. He is not
| the most reprehenSible member of the
| A. and NJ faculty. He is man Of
| singularly simple mind as well as
dreamer. He is easily imposed upon
when ambition entices or flattery eXcites.
| Tell him of thousands holding his name
| in grateful remembrance and he will
| DO your bidding: offer him another pro
| fessorS chair. let him think of sue
ceeding Professor Withers as director,
| and he viii 20 to any extent; so guileless
is his soul
His colleagues in the faculty have
imposed upon him. Ihey-by that L
mean the clique that speaks rs the
| faculty-control him except ut. odd mo-
mentS when he speaks out. They Sc
| lected some of the trustees you Know;
they are in authority. Before the
| Board Of Trustees in recent session
the Professor of Horticulture declared
| that he did not believe what he adj
| vised in his letters was for the good
of the college. saying that he had writ
| ten at the hehest of others There
upon. being questioned closely, he made
so many contradictory statements that
when he had retired from the room,
Hon. Frank Ray, of Macon, remarked
that he had heard of the like, but that
this was the only professor he had ever
seen who was really capable of teaching
either the round or fiat theory.
Very gufleess, / say.
One day the Professor came down
town and announced that he was forever
done with 1.-The little Presby terrain clique
in the faculty" mot my Words ana
told the whole story of his disgraceful
fuss with the Professor of Chemistry;
how the latter had charged him with
reading his private letters, and how he
the Professor of Horticulture had
given his colleague and superior in rank
THE lie" four times to his facc-'the lie''
with an unspeakablc handle to it. the
boys are telling, | wonder if the trus-
tees Investigated this row. Next day,
after an interview with the Triumvirate
that lobbieS for trustees. he was in the
same place smoothing things over, swat
lowing his words. Peace reigned at the
\. and NJ. This glrileless soul loves
peace and his position.
1ne Professor is too simple Il man
for his company. He loves publicity
just well enough for them: and he
likes his place, and other mems places
almost too we'll. | make no doubt that
the Triumyirate have made him say and
do things that he did not like They
are an cXacting set. | do not mean
President Holiday, or Professor Serb
nerr, or Professor Parks. or Professor
Wichc. or Professor emery, or Professor
PritGhett, or Professor Yates, or Profess
scr Wright or one or two others, since
| am mot sure | know them all. These
men are not To he found in the cgiSla-
tive lohbies! THE Faculty." the rulers,
were there though early and late. When
the alumni had named two independent
and intelligent sons of the college for
positions on the Board of Trustees,
MessrS. Gold. of Wilson. and Pearson,
of Raleigh they We're promptly DE
feated for Faculty" candidates who
could take orders. Not content with CON
trolling their classes, not satisfied with |
governing their president, they would |
also govern the General Assembly. And |
they apply for increases of salary as if |
they thought the people appreciated that |
sort of work. 1t is no wonder to me that
the Professor of Horticulture who is
neither strong nor shreWd, endeavors
to keen their favor.
Finally let me call attention to the
original purpose of my editorial The