The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-06-25
PARS0N RAISES IRE
Preacher Broughton Scores
the Georgia Tech.
PRESIDENT HALL REPLIES
Professor Turner Also Makes TART
Reioinder-AiIegations Were Made
During Sunday Sermon and
&c EIicits Much Criticism.

There has been considerable critl'
c;sm expressed over the sermon which
DR.. Len G. Broughton delivered at the
Baptist Tabernacle in Atlanta last Sun
day. night, in which he severely casti-
gated the moral character OF the pro-
fessors and students OF the georgia
School of Technology, the leading tech
nical institution in the south.
In the prelude to his sermon Dr'
Broughton denounced the moral plane
of the institution. in no unmistakaole
terms, saying that 'as matters now
stand boy might almost as we'll go to
EelI for grace as to the Tech for char
acter."
He then denounced the recent ban
quet held by the graduating class, IN
which he said that 'the students ana
the members of, the faculty swigged
wine and champagne together he
said the people Of the state were indis
nant at this state OF affairs.
This attack upon the Tech has
aroused much. adverse criticism
President Hall Talks.
In an interview which he gave out
Monday morning, President Lyman
Hall, of the Tech, said:
.Ifeel it my duty to reply to the ser
mon of DR.. Broughton as follows:
"No member of the faculty has, IN
nv knowledge, ever attended ban
quet with students; The alumni ban
quets are annual affairs which have
beer. given for the last ten years at
the close of the session in June. The
occasions have not been abused nor
have they ever been the cause or un'
favorable remark. The members Of the
faculty and board of trustees, the gov
ernor and visiting dignitaries have al
ways been invited.
The statement is made that certain
people are tired of paying their taxes
toeducate drunkards, etc. In reply to
this f it needs reply) can only point
.o our hstsof graduates and say 1t is
the boast Of the institution that net
one of them has ever been known to oe
dfssipafed or unreliable in business.
"The following charge is made:
There is too much drinking out there
Also, the faculty sets the pace Sure
" every friend of the school, familiar
with it's personnel AMI work, must
know this is SANDER against the In
stitution; and to those who are not IA
miliar with the institution, it becomes
my duty to say in reply to such state
ments that have never known of any
member of the faculty being under the
infunce of liquor. IS
Gas to the student body, there is no
college dormitory in the United States
which is more closely looked after as
regards the habits and hours of stu
dents. In the fifteen years of the
Schools existence there has never
been case made in police court or
of the city against stuoent of the in
stitution; for drunkenness or disorder.
ly conduct. Surely this is a record
which cannot be surpassed. In the fif,
teen years of our existence there has
been only onesor two cases Of students
having been found under the influnce
of whisky, and the penalty has been
expulsion.
Professor Turner Talks.
Professor. Frank C. Turner, of the
Tech, and treasurer Of the alumni as
-sociation, gave out the following rath-
er tart interview in regard to The
statements Of DR.. Broughton:
Gas an alunnus of the school and a
member of the alumni association /
express the sentiment of the associa-
ton In saying tnat this villainous at
tack is beneath our notice.
"Such charges against our school
are false, and the alumni are indig.
nant that they are brought, though we
feel sure that the people Of the coun-
Try will consider the source and take
: these statements at what they are
worth.
"It will probably be recalled that
this reverend gentleman few years
since made an attack upon the young
lady stenographers of this city, which
/. attack is summed in his statement
that it was as well to give a young
lady straight passport to hell as a
diploma from one of our stenographic
colleges These words were thrown
back into his teeth. Not satisfied with
trying to smirch the virtue of some OF
the fairest young women of the state:
he now seems to be anxious to injure
the reputation and character of its
young men, and cast reflection upon
an institution whose WORK and repu.
tation are conceded to be above re-.
proach.'