Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-04
WHY R|NR|CHS
WAS TURNED DOWN
Controversy at University Aris-
ing From the Medical Alum-
nj Meeting Not Serious
HlNRIcHs WAS a .DIsTuRBER
He Has Been Regarded as an Enemy Of
the Institution and President Mac.
Lean and Others Thought It Would
be Unjust to Hinrichs to Invite Him
to Banquet.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City. May 4.-The attempt to
embarrass the university and Presi-
dent MacLean over the incident of the
withdrawal of an invitation to DR..
Hinrichs. former member of the
medical faculty, to attend the banquet
to the medical alumni is not likely to
succeed. 1t is certain that Hinrichs
was invited without the knowledge of
position to believe that some people
may have urged that he be invited In
order to make an unpleasant situation
for the president and some of his fac
ulty. 1t appears that when the plans
were made for the banquet a commit
tee on invitation was named. 1t was
planned to have as many of the liv-
ing professors who had been members
of the medical faculty as could attend.
Hinrichs was invited. but when it be-
came known that he had been asked
to attend the banquet and make an
address considerable opposition de-
veloped and a telegram was sent Him
richs withdrawing the invitation. Hin
richs came anyway. When he called
upon President MacLean the latter
said he would construe Hinrichs' visit
to mean that he had retracted the
statements he had made about the uni
versity. Hinrichs said he would do
nothing of the kind and MacLean told
him frankly he could not invite him,
under the circumstances to attend the
banquet. OF course Hinrichs felt hui
INFLATED and his story got into the
newspapers. Hinrichs did not attend
the banquet and three eold professors
who felt aggrieved at the rebuke given
him .lil not attend, They were c. M.
Hobby, E. F. Clapp and J. G. Shrader.
There was no friction at the banquet.
which was a success.
Hinrichs Made Charges.
DR.. Gustavus Hinrichs, whose pres
ence in the university during the alum
nj medical clinic, gave rise to the re-
markable newspaper story to the eff
feet that the clinic and the university
faculty had split into many factions
over whether he should be received
or not, was expelled from the faculty
Of the state university in which he
held the chair Of applied chemistry,
in 1886, by the action of the board of
regents.
Their action is alleged to have been
taken as result of Hinrichs' bitter
hatred of his many associates, his
eternal condemnation of them, public
and private, in the press and by means
of pamphlets and his constant agita-
ton, which kept the faculty in
a turmoil. Hinrichs was at
that time, it is said, pos
sessed with the idea that he was
the object of countless political moves
on the part of his colleagues and from
the time he was expelled from the uni
versity faculty in 1886 until almos.
1900, he kept up an unceasing attack
upon the regents and the faculty OF
the institution by means Of pamph-
let's.
The complications arising from his
presence here during the meeting were
hardly as serious as the lurid literature
arising from it seemed to indicate.
An invitation was sent to DIR. Him
richs by DR.. Guthrie, one of COM
mittee of three consisting of himself,
President MacLean and DR.. Biering.
that had the alumni clinic in charge,
without the knowledge of the other
two members of the committee, and
without considering his relations with
members of the faculty at the time of
his dismissal
A letter was received by him on
Saturday, in which he acknowledged
the receipt Of the invitation. Contin-
uing, he referred to the trouble in the
university under the late President
Pickard, whose history of the insti-
tuition he declared to be filled with for
gerry and falsehood. The committee
having the clinic in charge, understood
at once what the result of his vista
ton would be. Convinced that he had
been badly treated by the regents In
the faculty in 1886, a fact upon which
he had pondered for the past twenty
years his presence could have been
little more than a disturbing element
in the convention. That a mistake had
been made was realized by the COM
mittee and DR.. Gutherie. who had un-
officially invited him to attend the
meeting, promptly wired him, inti-
IndCluS lIC ldClS III lALS SetSSs
Looked at from any standpoint the
presence of DR.. Hinrichs, man who
had been expelled from the faculty by
the board of regents, and who had
grossly libeled his former colleagues,
living and dead. could not have been
tolerated at an assemblage of the
friends of the university of Iowa, the
expenses of which were betrayed by
the supporters of the college Of medi
cine.
Hinrichs declared that he received
the telegram from Gutherie as he was
about to board the train, but that he
determined to come nevertheless He
called upon DR.. Biering and together
they sought President MacLean. Dur
Ing that visit DIR. Hinrichs constantly
reverted to his former troubles and to
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