Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-17

4 made no effort to conceal his disap-
j pointment in any way.
! Instead he has been childish in his
/ display OF it. On the street corner. in
the barber shops, in the postotfice, any
| where he could find man to listen &c
/ him and his criticisms of the univer-
sity's president and of the board of re-
gents, he has been only too ready to
talk
But Sims was only the brute force
which carried thru the cleverer brain
work of the combination. Dr. L. w
/ Andrews. who has been for twenty
! wears connected with the university
and has occupied the chair of chemistry
! in the collegiate department during
/ that time, has supplied the. brains OF
1 the movement A year ago Andrews
wanted to be placed ct the head of the
pharmacy school on the resignation of
4 Boerner. and was turned down. For
some unknown reason he placed the
1 blame of his defeat on the president S
| head, and while he has been vastly
| more clever than Sims, In that he was
not oren in his attacks on the presi-
| dent, he has nevertheless been much
/ more vindictive.
| Sims, urged on by Andrews, it Is sup
posed wrote to his former student,
/ Lovel. of Des Moines. and Lowell, work
| ing thru his friends among the alumni
! in the state who We're not acquainted
with The situation here, aroused the
mass meetings.
This decisive action taken by the
board has frightened up the members OF
| the faculty In a remarkable manner,
and they are now walking with their
eyes well to the front. The lightning
was liable to fall anywhere. and no one
| wants to be standing up to be hit. As
| a prominent aliimnus Of the university
| said last night: "The action of the board
will make these professors feel that
| there Isl some power in this university
| beside their own sweet viii. 1t, will
| give them an idea CT the sterner life
| and make them realize that while they
are the whole thing when it comes to
handing out a funk to some poor
| freshie. they are pretty small potatoes
in the eyes of the board of regents"
Continuing he said:
The dismissal of these two men who
have been the main string of the attack
upon President MacI4ean and the uni
(.
it will show the state at large what the
board of regents thinks of the recent
attack upon MacLean and it will re-
store the confidence In the university
which the attack has lost it.
1T is just as Carol Wright said at
the alumni banquet the other night
If one half OF the alumni would spend
one half of the energy in upbuilding the
university that a few men have shown
in trying to- tear it down. and IL the
papers In Iowa City would use one
tenth OF the space in advertising the
university that they have used the last
three weeks knocking, we would have
2.a00 students here within the next five
years
Z don't see but that we are started
in that direction now. This little mat
ter, for9itsss a little matter, now that
it is I'LL over, will soon blow over and
be forgotten. the men who have been
fired VIII be remembered only as in
CRATES and snieddlers, and with a united
faculty the university will reach out
for tie Iowa student as ii never has
befors..
.1rheyboard OF regents are to be COM
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nerve In the way they did Nothing
else would have SO cleared the air of the
charges and would have so quickly
rounded those professors into line. who.
during the past year, have been luke
warm III their support OF the president
and the administration. When it
comes; to the matter of their salaries
they are all running to cover. 1t is
the best thing that has happened to the
school in thirty years"
Other University Matters.
The, action OF the board in other mat
ters was as follows;
DIR. j. w. Daily, OF Cedar Rapids. has
resigned the chair OF opthalmology and
that position has been combined with
the chair OF GEOLOGY and will remain
with nr. L. w. Dean the present in
cumbent
Professor A. g. Smith. of the chair
of mechanics. has been in addition
advanced to chair in physics.
Professor A. A. yeblen has been made
a. professor OF experimental chemis-
try.
Alice Young. dean of women for the
past four years and registrar for the
past year has resigned both positions
and will sever her connection with the
university. The position of dean of
women has been given temporarily to
Mary G. Everts. of the department of
public speaking; the position of regis
trar will be filed by n. c. Dorcas who
viii also be an assistant professor of
education.
Misses j. and l. Sawyer, who have
been connected with the library for the
past three years have resigned, and
rumor has It will be married in the fail:
their positions have not as yet been
filed
Arrangements have been made
whereby Close Hall, the Y. M. C. A.
will como under university manage
ment and the gym. which has been used
for fourteen years by the men will be
turned over to the women In the uni
versity.
To fiji Professor Sims position.
committee has been appointed con-
sisting of the president of the uni
versity, Or. MacLean: chairman of the
liberal arts committee Regent Picket,
Of Waterloo: and Dean Weld. of the
school Of applied science. 1t was also
recommended that q committee of three
be appointed to inspect the engineering
buildings OF the colleges of the vest
lnY n, reporf in orjar thar tho p1apS for