New-York tribune., 1908-04-03
VIEW OF PROFESSORS.


The situation. as the faculty views il. is.
shall the authorities who are responsible for the
conduct Of the university control or shall the
student body? IF the latter, 1t was said last
evening. there will have to be a complete re-
organization OF the university, and the spirit
is peculiarly. one of the professors said yes
terday indicative OF the times. it should be
combated to the limit.
But the PROFESSIONAL stand is against hazing.
They feel that the attack Bloch was hazing
in it's worst form. and that a decided stand
should be taken against it. The students
ganization will meet to-day at 1870 o'clock. II
is expected by the faculty that the boys will
back down. The boys. however, do not expect
to do anything of the kind.
This ducking in the fountain before the Hall
Of Fame is a custom with a sort Of All Hal
loween flavor. so far as the New York Univer-
sity is concerned The "freshies' are AIKEN of
their feet the last OCtOber day. their scalp
locks soaked in the water and that is the whole
performance. When young BIochs turn came
last autumn he wriggled away from his captors
and went in hot haste TO Chancellor MacCrack-
ems home. where he told his tale OF escape
The next morning the chancellor in chapel
gave the students the benefit of his definition Of
hazing He said that the duckfng of student
was hazng and that the faculty would nor
permit that sort Of thing. since that time Bloch
has not been very popular. It said yester-
day that he had detectives near him as a pro-
lection. but if he did have they were rather
renniss in their guardianship on Wednesday.
for there was no attempt 10 save him from the
ducking.
THE FACULTTS STATEMENT.
The faculty Of the university yesterday issued
the following in response to the student bodv,s
request for a modification of the punishment Of
Young:
In reply to the communication of the student
organization acknowledging the violation ~ the
rules OF the university students of the junior
class and others In doing physical violence to
one of their number and asking that the penalty
be not visited upon individual but upon a
class a whole, it is the sense Of the commit
tee OF discipline that a readiness TO submit to
the authority Of the faculty must be first in
dicated by immediate return by the classes
to their duty students.
That the suspension OF Mr.. Young pending
the meeting OF the faculty on Tuesday stands
until the faculty shall have acted in the matter
That the student body be advised that having
wiIfuIly committed a serious breach Of disci-
pline and having added INSTRUMENTATION To a
the committee that punishment must follow
That in the view Of the committee IL is the
province OF the faculty and council alone 10
determine what shall constitute conditions of
membership in the university. and that the i'm
position by the student body OF requirements
for attendance other than those prescribed by
the faculty Is an interference on the part OF the
students with prerogatives belonging solely 20
the university authorities.
The professors who got out this pronuncia-
rnento were Charles H Snow the dean of the
school of applied science, John J. Stevenson
Charles L. Brsto. Arthur r. Lamb and Daniel
W Herring II was said Yesterday by one of the