New-York tribune., 1901-05-27
THE COLLEGE BRED WOMAN.
PROFESSOR CLARK. OF NORTHWESTERN. MADs
NO SWEEPING OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
MIsREPRESENTED.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Ny attention has been called to an editorial
in recent issue of your great journal. in which
held up scorn and reproach on the supposi-
tion that guilty recently of expressing in my
classroom certain outrageous comments on edu-
Gated women.
So long this wretched canard was confined TO
the yellow journals of Chicago where II was
invented. have declined TO contribute their
morbid desire for sensationalisrn by taking any
tice of the matter. But tpe standing of your jour
nal and its wide circulation among my friends and
acquaintances in the East compel me TO speak.
The report that 1 have made any structures on
educated women is absolutely without foundation
The subject has never even been mentioned in my
classroom AT a recent session OF a class IN
theme writing. while commenting on an exercise
Just then read by student on a similar subject.
dld make certain comments on a particular class
OF society women have apology TO offer for
what really said. Next morning was informed
ehat was quoted in one of the yellow news
papers OF Chicago as having expressed a sweep
ing condemnation of all college women The libel
Is due 10 the idiocy the possible malice Of some
student reporter As a matter Of fact. the views
attributed 10 me the exact opposite OF those
'nat l mold vas fortunate enough years ago to
marry college bred woman, and sixteen years of
experience have served only to confirm nv original
belief that the college bred woman r1alsS rba hest
VIE Si anu the best homemaker of all women
hesitate 10 make even this correction for some Of
the journals that have copied the fake report have
oovsh so KIND as 10 charge me with rnakfng sensa-
tonal speeches in the classroom in the hope OF gain
MS h3torlety assure you that have no desire for
that kind of fame" But I am forced 10 anpeaI 10
uch 81 journals as The Tribu-e. because there seems
bo, oe no other means of redress for what has
b byIoIle IN a sreat and general wrong. My case is
Sy no means the first of the kind In this vicinity.
y Ony a lew days ago our Professor Crook was
naue the putt Of the people of two continents be-
ftte fEatSe chicago Journal had published alleged
Ietter, In which the professor admitted himself
59buuV or an manner of asininity II appears
!ouTnal that did the wrong has publicly apologized
few moUIbs 80 rooh oh III an edit9rai paragraph. a
ment of Germanic Philoogy was widely repre-
use or Cigarettes As a matter of fact pro-
lessor thus misrepresented never tobacco. and
mas proper horror of cigarettes. Last winter
one OF the most eminent professors in the Uni
verSly of Chicago was publicly charged with COM
paring John Rockefeller to Shakespeare, while
another was said to have advised his pupils cul-
journalism reached in Chicago that the professors
West have been compelled recently 10 send out
CIRCULAR letter asking their friends and the public
yersity found in the Chicago newspapers. without
dlrect continuation And it goes The decent
original eanard about myself but such papers as
T., ihg ne, Iacage tribune and The Chicago Pest,
IN dlSnlhed editorials. written without my knowl-
edge or inspiration. have sternly condemned the
our only appeal for de.iveraace from this curse
must be 10 such journals these and your own
one doubt the quality Of that boasIed freedom
or which all good Americans are so fond Of boast
would II have been possible 10 perpetrate such an
outrage upon defeOCeieSS private citizen, leaNns
him no means of redress? IL makes long lor
a bit of Old World tyranny" Is il not time. sr
that such y journal your own should begin an
agitation of the public mind toward securing some
such press law that by which in Germany
any paper publishing a misrepresentation Is com.
PEELED to publish in it's next successive issue =
retraetion dictated by the victim in the case ann
printed in the same part of the paper ana ~
equally prominent typography with the OrishA'
article?
Trusting that neither you those OF youul
readers whose opinions are worth c2nsderins WIN WIN
misconstrue my motive in thus addressing ySSSus,
and asking, In simple justice, that gnu give tal'
correction equal prominence with your unintsl,
tional MISREPRESENTATION of myself. I am, yours
respectfully j. SCOTT CLARK
Northwestern University. Evanston H., May %
professor Clark expresses himself with
warmth for which the experiences he describes
presumably, and not unnaturally. account since
the article in The Tribune to which he refers
signihed doubt as 10 the authenticity OF inc
reports about him. and was obviously meant u
De 1ocose rather than suggestive of "scorn anu
reproach But if 1t caused him serious snnoS-
ouces We are nipcerely sorry-Ed1