The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-31
BOARD NOT TO CHANGE
OLD-7IllE RELATIONS
Randolph-Macon Trustees Have No Idea of Recel
From Their Position. Saws mi.
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sion, transacted the business Ia hand
and adjourned without one word a oil

sion. transacted the business In hand
and adjourned without one word of
criticism from any one. Bg &
About fourteen months after the
adoption Of the resolutions OF August
16, 1906 the board was criticized foY
adopting those resolutions, making tts
impression that we, as Methodist
institution had changed, or wou1S
have to change, our policy IN order
to get the benefits OF the Carnegia
Foundation. The matter occupied much
or the time OF the last conference az
Petersburg, Va, in November, 1907, the
result OF which was the appointment
OF committee to present certain reso-N
| lutions to the trustees which had bean
adopted by the conference. However,.
after the adjournment OF conferences in
November. 1907 and pending the meet
ing OF the trustees in June, 1908, this
matter was freely discussed by the
| Baltimore and Richmond Christian
| Advocate. &
president OF the Carnegie Foundation
| and Judge Z. D. Newman, president
OF the board OF trustees, had soma
correspondence as to .the meaning Of
the resolutions OF August 16, 1906, In
which Dr.. Priciett intimated that
lions above referred to, 1t meant
radical change in our policy; that we
would have to elect others than Meth
| odists on the board of trustees. and
that we could not appear before the
public as UNCONVENTIONAL school. At.
the trustees first meeting in June
1908, they very promptly passed Z
| resolution saying in substance, IL that
! Interpretation was placed on the reso-s
buttons adopted by them August 16i
1906. then they would decline the bene-s
| fits OF the Carnegie Foundation and
appointed a committee of three lawyers
to carry these in person to the Car
negle Foundation, requesting an an.
swer in writing. that there might be-
no further misunderstanding. think
| this should satisfy any reasonable per-
son as to where the trustees stand In
lstheir relation to the Carnegie Foun.a
lfdation.
Rights Not Contested.
TWENTY-FIVE ministers and twenty
tees OF Randolph-Nlacon College. They
are all Methodists in good standing
In their churches. They are a self
perpetuating body. Some say they
want legal tie and moral ownership
Can we make 1t any more so than IT.
is? We have possession OF the proper
| ty, and are getting the benefits OF 1t.
There is no one contesting our right to
It. What more can we do than we have
done? We acknowledge 1t Is our own
| church school,, and will be conducted
In the future as in the past. It is
| true the trustees declined to use some
words or terms in expressing their
idea OF ownership that some would
have US use, but when analysed they
mean the same thing.
I'VE cannot agree ON conference
control. would not change the char
ter IL I could. We have good one
Then. am advised that the charter
| cannot be changed IL there is any obs
lection. The board, In my judgment.
| than the conference. In 1904 q reso-l
luton came before the trustees from
| the conference asking that voice be
/ given in the selection OF trustees.
THE board referred the matter to
| a committee composed of the Rev. q.
/, F. Lipscomb. Bishop a. w. w ilson and
/ the Rev. Paul Whitehead. They replied
\ as follows:
"Your committee, to whom was re-
ferrcd the resolutions of the Virginia
Conference mt it's last session, request-s
ing the board to tnke such steps as
will give to the patronizing conferss
enccs some voice In the Aelection OF
the board of trustees, beg leave 70 .r IS
port that in their Judgment 1t Will be-
Iinadvisnble aud injudicious to change
or to attempt to change the method
| OF appointing trustees provided by tbs
original charter, and which has beenS
| prnctIccd uniformly down to the pres
! emit day. SO far from bringing the COM
| ferencex patronizing this college Into
closer relationship to 1t and decpeal
sympnthy# with 1t, we are Of the opinss
Jon that the opposite effect would fol~8
low from the adoption Of such m
/ Inn ovation. { (SiEned)
sB. r. LIPsCOMB,
"a. w. NVILSON n,
\ tsIs III. 5yyIIITESHEAD.se
81 regret to have trespasseds on So
much OF your space. but feel that
1 should say this much. and try 70. SO! SCI
nv position in this matter clearly beSs
! fore the public 8