The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-09
KERR
WINS VICTORY
Professors Merrill and Widtsoe Out
of A. C..
M'LAUGHLIN AND YoDER IN
NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY ARE
SELECTED.
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Iege obtained a complete viudica-
ton at the hands OF the board OF trOs-
tees and put to utter rOut his enemies 8
| in the faculty and those on the outside
who have so viciOusIy attacked him .
NIessrs. WidtsOe and Merrill We're sum
marily dismissed after Kerr haA
7 charged them with being out Of har-
mOny with the policy OF the trustees
and the president and out OF harmony
with the students. Their friends On the
/ board, Messrs. StOhI and Smart and
Mrs Gates, who, a few weeks ago 50
| loudly proclaimed the innocence of to
/ charges. sat silent while Kerr invited
an investigation and then, to make The
! yindicatiOn more sweeping the board
increased Kerr salary SEQ after StOhl
| had moved to reduce it $1.l0Q-
President Mccormick cast the deCid- &
4 ing vote on all disputed questions. the 4
other members dividing equally. There .
was no hesitation on his part. Hrs vote
/ was boldly and quickly announced
Lined Up in Factions
! The board met at the college at
| O'Clock and soon got to work. To their
/ astonishment reporters were adrnirted
| without a word OF protest from even
/ Mrs Gates The old members were
] lined up on one side Of the table. while
! the new ones were on the other side
/
Il board, who is with the anti-Kerr fac
| ton, took no part IN the proceedings
| beyond saying GeS'' or No in voting
/ and Il second the motion three times
| The reading Of the minutes Of the last
| meeting was the first thing done In
| the main these minutes consisted OF in
| Vulnerable TepetftiOnS Of Mrs. Gates.
I patent, trIple-aCttOn motion as to EN-
/ pIOying Kerr, WidtsOe and Merrill. and
| the reading caused much amusement TO
| most Of those present.
] Trustee owen then presented an
| amendment to the bylaws providing
/ for the election Of a vice president In
! order to avoid repetition OF the Diff
| Guilty that occurred this year 1t car
! ried.
! The first fight was the selection OF a
! vice president. Mr.. owen named J. A
! McAlister. Mrs. Gates named MT
/ StOhl Mr. McAltster was elected vice
president, Mccormick casting the decdd-
ing vote
StohI named A NJ Flemming for
| treasurer and Owen named Robert
! Murdoch There was another tie and
Mccormick voted for F1emming- Ostien
/ was named as auditor for the college.
| The matter Of continuing the engi-
neering course at the college developed
a very earnest discussion The con-
! census Of opinion was in favor Of con-
tinuing that course until the students
now entered have completed it, Presi-
dent Kerr maintaining that the college
was under implied contract to graduate
students that, relying upon catalogue
| promises. had entered the COur3e- The
/ following motion presented by Trustee
! Owen was adopted
BE it resolved that we recognize the
claims of the students already entered
/ upon the engineering COURSES the cob
! lege and that We also recognize the in
! depreciation Of the law as giving Us the
! right TO continue the courses so as To
/ graduate all students nCoS 50 registered
| ana that no new studeHts be registered
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1905 and 1906
The vote on this resolution was unsn-
imous.
Professors Removed.
| Then came the interesting feature Of
/ the meeting. President Kerr arose and
after summarizing his report for the
] Deneft of President Mccormick. recon-
! mended the removal Of DR. WidtsOe as
( director OF the station and of Lewis a.
! Merrill as agrOnOElist- In doing So
he said, I cesire TO state briefly my
/ reasons Tor requesting the removal of
3 these two professors Both Of them
/ nave given ample evidence Of the fact
that they are not at all in sympathy
! with the policy Of the board Of trustees
I and the president of the school and are
/ entirely out of harmony with the other
/ members Of the faculty and student
BODY. Harmony Is Imperative II the
college IS to progress and that cOndfrNQn
] cannot be obtained with these two pro
70 go INTO this matter as deeply as the
| board desires I have documentary evi-
dence and am prepared TO summon wit
neSseS and have them testify He then
named Dr. 2 A Yoder for director at
a salary Of s., 600 per year. William
Jardlne Tor agrOnomist ut 81 200 and
/ Walter w Mclaughlin as irrigation
engi@2er at 81, 500.
! Professor Q. w. Jensen who was on
posed TO Kerr was released because Of
the decision to take no more students
| In the engineering course
! When Mr. Kerr sat down there was
silence Tor some time, ali eyes being
| upon StohI and his collea4ues Who
nave been incessant IN their demands
/ tor specific charges, but not q word
came from them until SbohI arose and
| moved that the presidents report be
not adopted. The motion was lost. 4 h,
/ s. Whitmore then moved to adopt the
report and recommendation and the
| motion carried, 4 to s. StOhI then
1 moved that President Kerr's salary be
fixed at $500 a year and recommended
that ne be reelected. Owen moved that
Kerr be reelected president and that his
salary De $500 per year StOhI nOmin-
ated NldIsoe Tor president, fixing the
salary at $4,000. President Mccormick
stated that WidtsOe had said he would
not accept the presidency. but StOhI IN
| sisted upon his name being put. Kerr
! was elected. to g.
Kerr Thanks Board.
Professor Kerr thanked the board
members for the yindicaIiOn given him
and announced that in the future as IN
( the past his sole aim will be TO advance
| the interests OF the college. There were
some matters Of routine business
! brought up and disposed of and them
] the board adjOurned- The result OF the
/ meeting gives the greatest satisfaction
] TO the majority OF people here, regard
| less of their politics and President Nc
/ Cornick is commended for his fair.
| l,1aT a ~
! establishment Is manifested, however.
| over the back-dOwn OF WidtsOe and
Merrill They protested their limo
| cence yet today when Kerr offered to
make his charges specific and delfber-
ately threw the gauntlet in the face oa
their friends, they wIlted and hadn's
= word TO say
| Professor MeLaushFsn's Career
I Waiter w Mclaughlin was born IN
IS76. he received his school education
IN Colorado and California He first
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