The record-union., 1899-04-30


Republican or Democratic political
tactics. After all, while We sincerely
regret it, since it is very desirable and
very beneficial for American institu-
tons to have clean-cut issues dividing
great parties, we must conclude that
the tears of the Richmond Times" are
not without cause.
THE UNIVERSITY SCANDAL AGAIN
Californians should be too proud of
that splendid institution of learning, the
University of California, to hear of
any scandal concerning it without stir
of emotion. The University is 100 pre-
cious in the eyes of this people who
have watched it's phenomenal and noble
growth with such pride and satisfac-
ton, to witness rebellion and insubordi-
nation within it unmoved.
1t is reported that because the fac
ulty has disciplined the editor of BLUE
and Gold" for turning that publication
into a yellow journal, scandalous, dis
respectful, vulgar and unbecoming the
student body of the institution, some
Of the junior class have taken umbrage
and come out brazenly N Endorsement
of Masters policy with Blue and
Gold,' and have demanded" the rein
statement of the editor lately dismiss
ed for his attempt to turn the Univer-
sity into what a contemporary terms
"a nursery for yellow journalism of the
coarsest and most offensive form
If any of the students in the State
| coarseness, personality. vulgarity and
rawness for which Masters was
dismissed from the institution, and
for which other of the editors
of Blue and Gold" are still I'M
der examination, and have demanded"
the reinstatement of Masters. then the
whole batch of them, to the last adde's
, cent rebel, should be bounced out of
the University bag and baggage, and
kept out. The faculty simply cannot
submit to being bullied; it cannot re-
lax its discipline one iora; it dare not
| show yielding; it must resent any i'm
pertinence or demand II it fails to do
so, farewell to the usefulness of both
faculty and University.
If there is respectful petition from
the students to the faculty, that should
be considered but demand never. We
are hopefully believing that the stu
dents have been lied about, that they
have not been so foolish as to enter any
demands, or to assume that they own
and can run the institution and dictate
its course, or that they think for a mo-
ment that anything in the form of
bundozing will be submitted to.
However, if the students or any Of
them indorse and champion Masters
Blue and Cold yellow paper system,
they offend equally with him and his
coadjutators, equally insult the faculty,
and should be treated precisely as Mas
tiers has BEEN For this all means more
than passing furry. 1t may involve
the usefulness of the institution for a
decade or so. 1t may be the little
stream that will undermine the great
structure. The Stockton 'Independ-
emit" speaking upon that subject, we'll
concurs:
This Struggle at Berkeley is very
| important issue to the people of this
State, not only because the outcome
may have an influence in encouraging
sensational 'joshing" and personality.
but because the very discipline of the
institution and the respect that is due
to the faculty on the part of the stu
dents are involved. Respect for in
structors and for other persons of ma
ture judgment and old-fashioned com
mon sense is a quality that has been
suffered to go into too much of a de-
cline in this rapid age, and unless a
check can be effected to this tendency
| in the higher institutions of learning,
| there Is little hope for succeeding gem
| erations in this regard.
The sentiment of the people CT this
State should sustain the faculty in
this important matter, and unless the
University authorities firmly repress
all INSTRUMENTATION growing out CT the
incident, and take measures TO suspend
or reform Blue and Gold,,' the people
should not hesitate to complain No
family in this State desires to send a
son or daughter to a tainted institu-
tion, and no institution can father such
yellow publications without becoming
tainted 1t tadnts faculty as well as
students, and should not be permitted
II the University is to grow in public
estimation And to surrender to the
protests of the friends of Masters
would be the very worst blow that
could be leveled at the institution.
From recent publications in the press
it has been made evident that about