The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-06-01

as al diuuinuS OI the state UnlverSit,
we wish to say that we utterly disap-
prove the injudicious, ill-a6vised anc
unseemingly course of the alumni al
Davenpor5 and other cities relative
to President MacLean.
Several days ago it was announced
that con mittee of distinguished
alumni would go to Iowa CITY
to investigate the President of the in.
stitutlon and report agoinsthim.
Judge Bolinger- nothing if not
dramatic now as in his school
days-headed the committee and at q
public meeting of Davenport resolu.
tlons were passed demanding that the
President be removed on very serious
charges that some of the faculty did
not like him and that the number of
students had not increased of late.
Certainly these are charges for
which man should be pilloried, should
De exhibited in the museum of the
Register AMI Leader along with the
manwith three wives.
Judge Bolinger is not fit to sit on the
bench if he would condemn a petty
THIEF on such hearing and yet he has
headed movement which means life
long disgrace and ignominy to man
against whose honor we have heard no
single word.
Inc alumni of other cities not to be
outdone, and without awaiting the
force OF committee ''to investigate
and report against" have also produced
violent resolutions. One of these Wit
rlolic resolutions is fathered by a man
who told us but short time ago that
be had not visited his alma mater in
the last dozen years.
We confess to occupying the unique
position of being almost the only
1lumnus in the state who does notl
know the exact status OF the university
and who confesses incompetency to III
vestlgate and condemn the President,
or to direct the Board of Regents.
We are not therefore prepared to de-
end the President. We are not de-
ending him. We are admitting that
We do not know.
But this we do know that the course
adopted by the Alumni has been !
on justice and fairness and of
greater injury to the university-than
even poor President would be for a
lozen years.
They do these things much better
any other place. If it were
rue that the President was not popular
With the faculty and that his contin-
lance in office was detriment to the |
chool, why did not Judge Bolinger
md his committee proceed quietly and
[ecently? Why all these brass bands
md display resolutions? The matter
ould have been Investigated, reported,
md the,regents conferred with, without
without delivering body
blow to the institution and without
damning a man against
Who no criminal charges at least have !
,een made.
We are dot defending the President.
We do not know. We do not know
Professor Calvin Mcbride, Nutting
Andrews and others and as between
hem and the President it would not
AXE US long to decide. We do not
think it would have taken the regents
ong to decide either.
The alumni resolutions remind us of
! certain petition once forwarded to
Gov. Jackson urging that a certain
murderer be hanged.
Governor Jackson waxed wroth and
that he was not changing by
'etition", that it was a painful duty
allen to him by law to sign the death
in certain cases, that only the
nost earnest conviction of Justice
Guild move him, and that petition
hat man be hanged was at once an
INSULT to the executive and to the de.
ency and influence of the signers.
Governor Jackson's letter was much
. the point in the present instances.