The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-22
Agricultural College Students
to Ask for Investigation.
Students Resolve Themselves In
to an Ousting Committee.
INCENSED AT NICHOLS.
President in Disfavor With the
Student Body.
Faculty Intimating That ResO-
lutiOns VIII Be Satisfactory.

Manhattan. Kan. March 22.-stu-
dents of the Agricultural college who
have been asking that President Mich
OILS reinstate suspended students, re-
solved themselves into an ousting
committee at mass meeting yesterday
afternoon committee of junior
students will visit Governor Hoch,
present the situation and ask an in
vestigation to remove the president.
Another mass meeting will be held
| today
The revolt at the Agricultural col
1 lege began March Is when President
E. r. Nichols publicly suspended three
students charged with disturbing the
morning devotional exercises. A mass
meeting of the entire student body.
numbering a thousand boys and girls.
was held and a committee appointed
to consult with the president. The
offense was committed by the junior
class who swung their banner over the
rostrum during the morning exercises.
The students think the punishment ia
unjust.
Affairs at the college have assumed
no definite shape but excitement has
not abated in the least. The impress
sion has been sent out by the faculty
that if the junior class will pass reso-
lutions deploring the act which has
caused all the disturbance, asserting that
nothing of the kind will ever occur
again the boys will be taken back. The
suspended boys refuse to allow the
class to take this step, but are willing
that the resolutions should be to the
effect that in so far as the act was q
violation of the rules. the class de-
plores it. The boys are anxious to get
back to their work.
- frl
nothing can be done to smooth mat
I ters over for by the presidents own
statement he is thoroughly acquainted
with every word and action of the
faculty is that of complete indiffer-
ence and it is thought that matters
will rest where they are. A move
ment Npas on foot yesterday to insti-
gate legal proceedings and it is ru-
mored that $500 will be raised in mass
meeting to carry on the Hgn-
Many are for placing the matter IN the
hands of a committee to keep the
question before the faculty. Class work
has been seriously interfered with
and interest is waning IN the maItsI.
Today's action viii probably deciue
the case either for an aggressive AZ
titude on the part of the students OF a
determination to drop the revolt.
Lacking in College Enthusiasm.
A student of the college speaking OF
the existing conditions said; Recens-
was dedicated. A programme was ar
ranged by the faculty and Pres A g.
Stormes of the Iowa Agricultural col.
lege was secured to give the dedlcatory
address. Chancellor Strong Of K y.
and President Wilkinson of the normal
were visitors. President StOrmes gave
an earnest, instructive, and inspiring
address but many Of the three hundred
students that had congregated to hear
him went to sleep IN their chairs The
event was not observed as holiday
and not a single college banner was
seen or a college yell heard. Many
of the visitors inquired for the students
and remarked the absence of process
sions, banners and 'yells-' They could
not understand why the students there
were so unappreciative, unenthusiastic
and so different from the students at
other institutions.
LAS the K. S. A. C. students leave the
college to go out among the people OF
the state they carry with them feel
ing of indifference and disinterestedness-
They fail to make it known to their
friends and neighbors that the Kansas
state Agricultural college is one of the.
greatest if not the greatest institution
of it's kind in the world AS rule they
have no enthusiasm whatever and seem
to take all the privileges they enjoy
there as a matter Of course. When the
college is assailed by some irate tax
payer who has probably contributed the
price of a ten cent cigar to this institu-
ton they pass it off with Indifference
They do not advertise the college among
the citizens of the state either BY
thought word or deed and it is fact
that visitors at the college invariably
express their surprise at the size Of the
institution and the work done there
"The president seems fearful that a
demonstrative attitude on the part Of
the students would fnjure the reputa-
ton of the institution and consequently
lessen the support that it receives from
the state He therefore seizes every op-
portunity to suppress all enthusiastic
among the students and
lends a chill to the atmosphere that
surrounds every student movement The
question might well be asked, What has
been instrumental in securing for K. u.
an appropriation of $1,000 and for K
S A. c. $190.000. It seems that K. S. A
c. has yet a reputation to make"
A Blow to Athletics.
The three suspended students were the
principal promoters of track athletics and
their suspension will probably result IN
the Agricultural college not participating
state institutions. The students generally
are inclined to look at the dark side or
matters concerning their athletic interests.
They claim that they are given no sup
port by the president and majority or
fhe faculty members and state definitely
that the Younger assistants are the men
that encourage and assist them In their
work Prominent students deplore the
fact that they are so effectually put
down that cOmradeship and good fellow
ship does not exist SO freely as at other
Institutions. The recent demonstration, il
it may be called SUCH resulted sastrOus-
~ to no one but the three boys accused
IF being concerned It only succeeded in
matter over. No furniture nor bones were
broken and no swear words" were used.