The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-07-26

ington; still, this army officer is
unwilling to sacrifice his petty pre-
judice on the deliberative aItars Of
is learned that he still intends TO
continue the fight, through selfish
motives no doubt, which will TO
limited extent impair the efficiency
of our great institution, and which
will purpose TO discredit its great
head And this man, Captain Well
born, has some following Why?
Let me tell you.
At the June meeting of the board
it was their request that public judg-
ment be suspended until the conclu-
sion of the Wellborn charges against
President Hardy. This request was
obeyed by President Hardy and his
friends, but the Wellborn forces, re-
aIizing no doubt the weakness of
their position, did all within their
power to prejudice the public mind
by the circulation of a variety of
unfair and highly colored reports.
Thus he secured some following
while he had the field to himself.
Now, since Captain Wellborn has
made the assault with the utmost
vehemence, and still, when the dust
and smoke of his charges have clear
ed away, we see the A. and NJ Col
lege and President Hardy standing
like stone wall, let us see what
manner of man is this Capt. WelIborn
of heterogeneous fame who dares
to come within our borders and, |
through a spirit. .,of. revenge, stir up
strife until a gj&antic investigation,
incurring additional inconvenience
and expense, must be held in order |.
to get rid of him. AS adduced from /
the evidence presented at the inves-
tigation, I quote the following from I
the summary as presented to the /
board by President Hardy:
Believing that the people of the /
State, and especially the patrons, /
wished that the religious life of the,
students should be guarded and pro-
NOTED, I have earnestly sought to
keep the atmosphere of the college
morally and religiously pure, and to
guard the students from temptations
of every kind. When l became pres
ident, the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation had in it about a dozen
members; now it has three hundred.
Believing, with most men, with all
physicians and with many legisla-
lures in other States that cigarettes
are deIeterious, especially as to young
men, 1 prohibited them altogether
and have, as far as possible, enforced
the prohibition. Believing strongly
in temperance, have used every ef-
fort to prevent the sale or drinking
of intoxicants among the students.
All of this is in keeping with the
settled policy of the trustees. In
carrying out this policy, l have al
ways received the cordial co-opera-
tion of the faculty, and have encoun-
tered no opposition, until Captain
Wellborn came to the college as COM
mandant He alone openly cast his
ters It was he who favored Sunday
parades and who opposed religious
revival services. It was he who, in
speaking in his class room to stu
dents, characterized the devoted
Christian workers in heather lands
as the damn missionaries, stating
that they did no good-a conclusion
which he had perfect right to draw
but which contrasts sharply with the
testimony borne publicly by both Mr..
Bryan and Mr.. Taft. 1t was he who
had a card party in his home, de-
the college prohibited card playing ]
among the students and in the homes J
of the faculty I claim no right to
his own conduct in his own
home, except so far as it encouraged
in the student body. It {
cating drinks in his own home to
members of the senior class, and
whose only apology for it is, al that {
time they were under temporary sus-
pension. 1T was he who, without en-
insubordination among the
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20 take as a rule or motto the words, t
SO act that you can look any damn
man in the face and tell him TO go
% hell''-a motto which appears, / {
I'M told, in the Annual, published by a
he students. as the motto Of the sen
or class. The young men of the
slass can hardly be blamed for the /
evil which may result from such Ian t
suage, especially when they acted