The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-05-15
PROF. BAwDEM BELIEVES
IN AFFINITY THEORY
University Man Refused to ResigE
on Request.
A WOMAN is IN THE CASE
Admits That He Regards Association
OF Sexes Based ON Comradeship to
Be the Ideal State, but Says He Does
Not Teach 1t, and Therefore Declines
to Give Up His Professorship.

Cincinnati, o. (Special).-H
Heath Bawden, professor of philoso-
ply at the University of Cincinnati
announced that he would refuse to
accede to request by President c.
w. Dabney that Bawden tender his
resignation because of Bawden's pri-
vate views on marriage and public
views of sociology.
Professor Bawden said that he
would fight against forced retire
ment. He came to Cincinnati a year
ago from Vassar, where he had been
member of the faculty for six years.
He admits that his radical views on
marriage, coupled with domestic
problems in his own family caused
him to be dismissed from Vassar,
but he maintains that he has never
taught any Of his private ideas to
his students.
Professor Bawden says that he be
lieves in an ideal state in which
there will exist an association of the
sexes, based on comradeship, and
Mr.. Dabney thinks that is too revolu.
tionary an idea for an instructor to
hold in the University of Cincinnati.
Professor Bawden has been mar
ried IL years, his wife having been
a teacher in the Granville (Ohio)
schools while he was an instructor in
the university at that place. He and his
wife are declared to have lived apart
for several years, even though re-
siding in the same building, and the
demand for Bawden's resignation is
said to have followed Mrs. Bawden' S
statement of the conditions of her
home life to President Dabney.
In a letter to President Dabney,
Prof. Bawden wrote:
Il agree with you about the con-
ditions under which l came to the
University of Cincinnati. 1t was not
fair to you to suppress the real oc-
casion of my leaving Vassar. l pro-
tested, at the time. against leaving
Vassar under what seemed to me
false pretenses, but all my friends
without exception urged it was the
right thing to do. / now see it diff
ferently and it was the unwilringness
to further opportunize that lead me
to the decision not to discuss the
matter here
President Dabney made the fol-
lowing statement:
mo man can, either by word or
manner of life, teach things destruc-
tive of the very foundation of human
society in any institution for which
1 am responsible. Prof Bawden has
stated enough to make my position
in the matter clear to the public.
ut appears proper to say in adj
dition and by way of extenuation
only, that called in DR.. Herrick,
professor of neurology in the Uni
versity of Chicago, the lifelong
friend and brother-in-law of Profess
sor Bawden, to see what he could do,
and he tells me that he thinks thera
is a pathological condition back of
the case
Mrs. Susie T. Bawden, wife of
Prof. Bawden, after suggesting that
there had been another woman who
attracted her husbands attention,
said:
II should take malicious pleasure
in telling her name if were disposed
to refer to her at all. My husband
did not always hold such peculiar
views on marriage. 1t is only within
the past two years that have no.
ticed their growth and development
and / never paid. much attention to
them until he began to practice
them l do not mean to say that
he has done any wrong except
to me, and | believe that he person
ally is clean and upright"