The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-04
Prof. Dnbncy Replies to Mr.. sctzlcl
hIlu the Hon. RhseNycII -PnEc. --a-

Editor OF The times ispatch:
slit.--ln your Issue OF yesterday Is
le tier from Mr.. FL I3. settler, OF New.
aecpracy. OF my statement III the Uni
xersity Alumni Bulletin. that Harvard
hi.le and Johns Hopkins no longer
require m ancient language for the
Before replying to this charge, let
y, US sec wllc Mr.. Se,aier is and what
MS qualifications are for disputing the
accuracy rt , OF other people.
university last session to take the
place or Adjunct Professor Faulkner
curing his absence iii Germany. When
we faculty had overwhelmingly voted
a as, rs compulsory Latin In spite Of
Gus speeches. he proceeded to make
statements to the editor OF tho Char
70 i2;ttesville Progress ..s to the size OF
IN, the majority snn and thu way that certain
torials. In that paper; but when their
Gross lnaccuracy was pointed out. the
editor finally revealed their source.
until reduced ut length to silence BY
absolute proof OF his innccuracy. His
silence, however, seems to have been
but temporary. and nc now displays
statement on another point.
III my Bulletin article said moth
ing whatever about the entrance re-
gu IRENE, !, OF any cn,yersity. MI
sht erefore nre who IN ha sns'ee
smoke simply OF what is required OF
students after admission to Harvard
Yale and Johns Hopkins Any one ex-
a;mining page 1874 q the Johns Hop
himself that Johns Hopkins University
does not require any student to take
Latin or Greek for the B. a. degree
unless he chooses to do so. Moreover.
Johns Hopkins University never has
those languages for that degree, as
Is officially stated by the registrar in
n letter to Dean j. NJ. Page, of the
University of Virginia. This letter Is
to inspection by me.nbcrs OF the board
OF visitors or any one else. Similar
official statements from Harvard. Yale
and many other universities are like
wise open to inspection.
In yesterdays Times-Dispatch there
is also an article or the Latin ques-
ton by. my personal friend, the Hon.
Roosevelt Page. / think that he has
my Bulletin article. and 1 merely wish
to point out one or two OF his mis-.
takes.
He says. for example. that claim
that making Latin optional will get
the university 'out of the dry rot from
which 1t has been suffering." SO far
fl ON having said that the university
was suffering from dry rot, I distinctly
stated that She was "still the foremost
university in the South and that cher
progress had been great in the last
fifteen years" My desire IS that this
progress shall continue. Mr.. Page also
charges me with saying that "the pres
ent y. a. degree by having Latin com
Pulsory is an inverted pyramid So
far from having made this statement
have not the remotest idea what II
means. Mr.. Page likewise accuses me
of speaking iiippantly of the deep feel
ing cherished by the alumni for the
university. Here again he is mistaken
My contention was simply that deep
feeling alone was not sufficient to
solve questions of educational policy
Such questions require the close eS-
animation of multitudes Of facts un-
known to the mass of alumni. l think
that Mr.. Page fails perhaps to realize
that the faculty contains numerous
alumni and that when an alumnus be-
comes professor. he does not cease
to feel as deeply for the university
as before. He does, however. acquire
great deal Of information about the
university and about educational sys-
TENS which he did not possess before
In this connection it may be interest
ing to state that not a single alumnus
now In the faculty voted for comnul-
sorv Latin. r. II. DABNEf:.
University of Virginia. Jan. ., 1905