The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-05-15
FREE Love PROFESSOR
IS ASKED TO RESIGN
Bawden Will Fight His Expul-
sion From Cincinnati ~"
Faculty.

the place OF marriage, II. Heath BaW-
den, professor OF philosophy Of the Uni
by President c. w. Dabney to resign.
He refused to do &c and announced
his determination to hight any move
to force him outside.
Professor Bawden came from Vas
sar. college n year ago. where he had
years. He admits that his radical
views on marriage and his domestic
problems caused him to be dismissed
from Vassar. but he maintains hat he
has eve taught any Of his private
ideas to his students and that he has
maintained an impossible wall be-
tween his own personality in that re-
gard and tho minds Of his classes.
Professor Bawden say he believes
In an ideal state in which there will
exist an association of the sexes, based
on comradeship. and DR.. Dabney thinks
this is too revolutionary an idea for
an instructor to hold.
Professor Bawden has been mar
ried 10 years, but he and his wife
are declared to have lived apart for
several years, eve though residing in
h same building.
President Dabney had sought a per-
sonal interview with Professor Baw-
den after the latter's wife old Of the
peculiartties Of their home life, and
h colloquy was reported as being
very heated.
In Own Dsfsnss.
Afterwards Professor Bawden wrote
h president In part as follows:
I agree with you about the conditions
Cincinnati 1t was not fair to you to
uppress the real occasion Of my leaving
Yer. ! protested at the time against
leaving Vassar under what seemed to me
false pretenses. but all my friends, with
out exception. including DR.. Strong and
Dr. p Taylor. urged + as the right thins
sec II differently, and 1t was the unwill-
inSness to destroy opportunity for fur
ther usefulness that led me to the deci-
The other day you said you thought you
had q right to know two things-the facts
n my views. With regard to the facts,
suppose. since no one Immediately con
cerned would willfully misstate em-and
IN the matter of Interpretation l wish Mrs.
Mrs. Bawden has expressed a willingness
TO live elsewhere next year, probably
abroad; 1 regret exceedingly the diff
Guilty that has arisen, and trust that this
may prove a satisfactory settlement Of
the matter.
He said he had written out a full
statement of his opinions, adding: II
have there set forth all the essential
class room. With regard to my pri-
vate views on certain matters not
therein treated I may add that have
been scrupulously careful not to reach
them In the class room"
In reply Mr.. Dabney wrote briefly
ton.
To Publish Views.
Discussing the demand for his res
ignation Professor Bawden said:
Il don't care whether I win in this
hight or not. Although have fore
seen that would be asked to resign I
have taken no steps whatever 70
strengthen my position with either nv
colleagues or the board OF directors. I
wish to remain or to go solely on the
merits OF the case.
DR.. Dabney has seen fit to call me
q coward because I refused to discuss
my personal affairs and my private
views with him. l am willing to have
R Ssa ~ Z l Ra1yS5a ''te and my views
Within two or three days I shall be
prepared with a statement of my views
on sex and marriage. which 1 am glad
OF this opportunity to make public. I
views. but they seem to me nearer the
truth than those on the basis Of which
I am about to be deposed from nv
present position.
Meanwhile I wish to put the ques-
ton clearly to the thinking public Of
Oil OIIlCeI IN In6
university. whose professional work is
admittedly satisfactory Cine is the
presidents W word), should be de-
posed because OF his private views. not
taught IN the class room, or because
o. domestic ~dificulties. as long as his
personal life 10 trreproachable."
consuItsd N~suroloaist.
resident Dabney, Of the university,
made the following statement:
oNN man A(tI.~. 80
or life can teach things destructive of
the very foundation OF human society
IN any institution of which I am re-
sponsible. Professor Bawden has stated
enough to make my position in the mat
ter clear to the public. 1t appears prop
er 70 SAY In addition and by way OF ex-
!enuetion only. that I called on DR..
Herrick. professor of neurology in the
university of Chicago. the lifelong
friend and brotherinlaw Of Professor
awde to see what he could do. and
he tells me that he thinks there 10 q
pa1nolo!tcal condition back of the case.
The letter published from Professor
bawden to me has not been received
by me up to this moment. Ny letter
therefore has no connection with his.
but gave my conclusions after q care.
1ul investigation OF the matter for soms
weeks, ~
Wife Knows "At6nIty."
MRS. susie I. Bawden, wife Of Pro-
lessor Bawden. after suggesting that
there had been another woman who
attracted her husbands attentions
said:
II should AXE a malicious pleasure
IN telling her name II I were disposed
to refer to her at all. but "a I ID no
Intend to do 30. I will not. NV nus.
band did not always hold such peculiar
views on marriage. It 10 only within
the past two years that I have noticed
their growth and development and i
never paid much attention to them un.
til he began to practice them. I do not
mean to say that he has done any
wrong except to me. I believe that Ia
- personally clean and upright. There
is nothing whatever in the intimation
that I am going to Europe. for severa
reasons. The first of them IL thai i an
without funds to do So"
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