The San Francisco call., 1907-02-23
DR.. EL[|NWOOD SCORED
BY NEW PRESIDENT OF
FACULTY, DR.. GIBBONS JR.
Points to Honor of Deposed
Chief in Matter of the
$3oo,ooo Bequest
TELLS OF CONFLICT
Declares His Assumption of
Authority Proved to
Be Unbearable


The faculty of Cooper Medical Col
lege did not wait for n communicn-
tton from the institutions board of di-
rectors to point its action In propelIing
DIR. El1inwood along the rond of "down
and out" As DR. Ellinwood had been
removed from his office of president OF
the directors Of the college, 1T followed
naturally that he should be removed
from his presidency of the faculty.
The Cooper teachers dozen or
more. in addition to several assistant
professors-met on Monday and, with
out discussion unanimously declared
DR.. Ellinwood's office vacant The va
cancy was at once filled by the election
of: DR.. Henry Gibbons Jr. to act as
president of the faculty for the unex-
pired term of Ellinwood, ending next
July. DR.. Gibbons is dean of the
Cooper faculty and has held that posi-
ton in this college and its predecessor.
the Medical~College OF the Pacific, since'
1870. DR.. Gibbons new position has
given him an opportunity to appear in
the light of adjudicator in the present
"irrepressible conflict" of the Cooper
institution.
'Dr. Ellinwood's personality became
very disagreeable,'' said DR.. Gibbons
yesterday. His assumption of author
had a most enviable position in the city
and in the college-in fact, all of us
were ready to hold up his hands and
help him forward until we learned TO
know him. There was not a single dis
sension In the faculty, the board or the
college, or among its friends.
REQUEST OF 100000
The difference of opinion involving
Ellinwood and based upon his attitude
in regard to the bequest in Mrs Lanes
VIII developed two years ago." said DR..
Gibbons The preceding two years,
following the death of Mrs Lane, were
years of accord in the college and the
faculty. Then 1t became apparent that
DR.. Ellinwood and the others in the
college management had different
views as to the purpose of Mrs. Lanes
bequest OF 100000 to Ellinwood.
Or. Ellinwood was very careful TO
be noncommittal," continued Dr. Glib
bons. Never once did he take the
board or the faculty into his confidence
on the matter Of the bequest. He was
NIT himself in writing. The nearest
approach to written committal was in.
his July report, when he said he hoped
to be able to endow the Lane lecture
course
The controversy will never reach a
legal stage-an airing In the courts. If
Eliinwood claims the 100000 he may
keep 1t insofar as the provisions of the
will are concerned and the probate
thereof. 1t is only a question of honor"
DOCTOR DID NOT TEACH
1t appears that though Ellinwood
was president of the teachers he had
not taught for many years and his
chair of physiology had lately been
bers OF the faculty are Dr. Barkan
(now in Europe), Drs. Cheney Hirsch-
fielder, Ophuls, Hanson, Stillman, Rix-
ford, Gardner and Somers, with assist
ant professors Drs. Rigdon, Blaisdell.
Grey and Hewlett
DR.. Ellinwood's published structures
upon DR.. Taylor as a probable pre-
ventive OF the negotiations to merge
Cooper College with Stanford Univer-
sity are not taken seriously by the
Cooper directorate or faculty. DR..
Taylor, as vice president of the college,
will remain in charge of the college
until the July election. AS member
OF the board he will participate In the
negotiations for afflliating Cooper with
Stanford. He is brilliant and active
man, and the fact of his having writ
tCil POCtly VI Di6 IL IncEjI Is HelO, among
his associates, as a matter of personal
ability rather than the subject for an
ill-advised fling. What bearing his
personality may have upon the Stan
ford negotiations is held as immaterial,
according to DR.. Gibbens. who said:
III DR.. Taylor is persona non grata
with any Interest at Stanford 1t can
not affect our rendering as gift an
institution with property worth. three
quarters of a million dollars. And be-
sides Cooper College the tender in
cludes Lane Hospital and much outside
property
The Stanford negotiations were in
the hands of committee consisting of
Drs. Ellinwood, Ophuls and Stnlman.
Ellinwood. says the dean of the faculty,
never made a report as to how the ne
gotiations were progressing. Since
the present controversy arose, the
Stanford matter has beer, delegated to
the whole board of directors and 1t ex-
poets to accomplish results.
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Concerts begins today at the store Of
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