The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-01
FACULTY WITH
PRESIDENT TYLER
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whole of 1t to the State of Virginia, and
then the State will nobly take care OF
her OWE There will then be State con-
troll over a State Institution, and the tax
payers will have a better guarantee that
their money will be iudiciousy and eco
nonically disbursed than they now have.
There would then be no more opposition
to appropriation by the Legislature, and
under State. control the dear ol0 college
would grow year by year in favor. num-
Der and influence. Surely a citizen Of
Virginia has q right to hold this position
in regard to an Institution which he helps
to support without having his motives
charged to prejudice and malice So
much for the college and my position in
regard to it.
WROTE AS A CITIZEN.
Fourthly, AS to the recent action of my
vestry, / have to make the following
statement: The meeting was called for
the purpose of considering complaint
made to the vestry by President Tyler.
He complained that / had used my Off
cial position to the injury of the church
and the college. He based this complaint
on the fact that 1 had formally signed
myself rector OF BrIton Church to my
open letter.
The ycstry took the position that the
sffixing of my signature in the form gave
the open letter a quasi official character,
which, in their judgment, compromise
both themselves and the congregation.
i had not the slightest Intention in my
omen letter, of speaking for any one but
myself l wrote a citizen and tax
pay,v Of Virginia / inadvertently ana
through force of habit attached my OH
& cial signature to an unofficial paper. Al
The request of the vestry, therefore.
gladly withdrew from circulation let
ter with my official signature attached.
There was no such thing as demand.
There was a request. and TINS request
was in accordance with my expressed
purpose before the vestry met. The reso-
buttons embodying this request also de-
clared that the vestry We're not in sym
pathy with the rector's position. This
resolution was entirely satisfactory to
ne Another set Of resolutions. however,
4 strongly condemning the rector. which
u may call 1.-The Tyler resolutions. was
overwhelmingly defeated. l have. there
fore, withdrawn from circulation an open
letter with my official signature attached.
But have not ana do not retract one
9 single line in that letter. l simply take
its whole responsibility upon myself as
a citizen ] stand by every statement IN
ST The statements remain disproven; the
facts alleged in that paper remain: re-
main unoontradicted and unimpeachable
Crl the convention afford to ignore
4h.r,p w. r. ROBERTS.
Action Of the Faculty
r-be faculty. associates of President
LYON G. Tyler. met yesterday and eS-
pressed themselves In the following reso-
buttons:
Whereas. w T. Roberts, rector of
Brntoni Church in order to prevent the
president of the College of William and
Z Mary from being put upon the proposed
BOARD Of Education. states in an open
letter to the president of the constitutional
convention that President Lyon G. Tyler
i as in favor of mixed schools. social equal
Z itr leading to miscegeration and calls
upon the Constitutional Convention in the
name of social purity, of morality and OF
religion, to place its condemnation upon
a college whose president holds such
i views
The professors of the College of William
and Mary president Tyler absent) do
unanimously and heartily resolve, first:
that the faculty, after thirteen years
constant and intimate association With
the high-mirded and distinguished scholar
who presides over this institution, do em-
nhatically declare that he holds no such
views as haze been attributed to him III
This rindictive and malicious letter. and
hat no man n Virginia is further re-
moved from such views. and that IN send
ing his daughter to Wellesley College he
embraced an offer and an opportunity
that few men IN the South would have
declined: second, that this attack upon
the college and its forored president is
personal and malicious, an attempt. TO
cainminate her president. humiliate her
faculty and blight her in the midst of her
growing usefulness and popularity. ana
this. too In spite OF the startling fact
that lie vas then seeking an appoint-
mcnt on the yisltorial board. and then