The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-22
NO explosions
FROM PRINCETON,
SAYS Mr. |NGLIS
Trouble inf Seminary Explained
by Newark Member of In
vestigating Committee.
AGITATION FOSTERED BY
OUTSIDE INFLUENCES.
Is Ready to Meet Present-D Day
Requirements With Present.
Day Equipment.

ehSco l IIilcetoH SefnlHdry the Kew
Robert Scott Inglis, pastor of the Third
Presbyterian Church. who is the Local
member of the committee of seven, APP
pointed to adjust the differences be-
tween the students and the faculty,
said that the. main trouble is being in
jected from the outside. The students
have protested against certain of the
study courses, and In a written state
ment termed NAem embarrassing and
unintelligible." This has been resented
by the faculty, and a committee has
been appointed to look into the matter.
In my judgment" said the
Rev. Mr.. fnglis, 1.-The main trou-
BILE In Princeton Seminary is
the trouble being injected into
1t from h outside. 1 have been at the
seminary a number of times this winter
and there is no such war apparent, as
some enemies of Princeton Seminary
would like to see. A main source of dis
content, in my judgment. lies In that
part of Princeton which is not now,
never has been, and never is likely to
be, sympathetic toward the position
Nt@t oOAiilotJ "a ONOl Z
as tie main stronghold of the sturdy
traditional Presbyterianism. The col
.lege is nc longer a Presbyterian insti-
the hope of the directors to keep it so.
Students Misguided.
THE students have been misguided.
| am firmly convinced that their dis
content, whether well founded or not,
has been we'll fostered by outside
parties. There would be little trouble.
| am sure, in getting together if it were
left to the students, the faculty and the
board of directors. But the reports
emanating from Princeton on Tuesday,
which were evidently false, plainly in
dictated a desire for trouble. The COR
rected report which came on Wednes-
day after the posting of the u1timatum
of the board of directors, revised what
had been put out the day before IN
made 1t apparent that no ultimatums
have yet been issued and that there
has been no talk of expulsion, but that
a committee has the matter in charge
to report at a future meeting Of the
directorate. The committee confidently
expects to be able to settle the sdiffi-
culties in a way that will be accepted
by all parties concerned.
THE request of students for change
of instruction is not unprecedented,
although unusual. For example, some
of the students of Union Seminary a
few years ago asked for the removal of
a profession. He was not removed and
is today recognized as one of the lead
ing scholars of that institution. The
prinaafnp hnvc r,oda q roioto ho IN +hn
manner in which they approached the
subject of Improvement in the curricu-
lum. The directors lave not been un-
mindful of the needs of the seminary.
They recently established a full course
in English Bible that is. most popular
with the students. Other plans were
under discussion and the request for
changes In the curriculum will doubt
less receive the due consideration of
the committee.
But the case will be at once preju-
diced If such a request is made the ex-
use for personal attacks, or II the
prejudice outside the seminary be per-
mitted to be injected into the discus
sion.
Newar Presbytery's Course.
"The question of letting down the
standards Of the seminary to meet
present day requirements as they are
called, has not received much encour-
agement in the manifestations of un-
fitness of other students in recent pres
byterial examinations. This hoes not
mean that the students are not compe-
tent, but that a curriculum that be-
comes too diversified is left to result
in smaller attachments. The member
OF h committee of the board of d.
rectors from Newark Presbytery does
not feel much like voting to substitute
a course In sociology for a course In
Hebrew, when the examining commit
tee of Newark Presbytery at its last
meeting refused to make a precedent
of such a substitution.
"A story was told last week of a
sailor going to the cook on a steamship.
holding in his hand a menu card and
asking h cook what a menu was.
The cool replied, In the cabin they eat
all those things In courses, one after
another, and they call it a menu" but
In the ~forecastle we eat them all to-
gether and call them an Irish stew
There is a good deal of popular de-
mand today for such a theological
training as would result in an Irish
Stew Princeton may be in somewhat
OF a stew herself just now, but when
she gets through she will probably pre-
sent a we'll prepared menu that will
send forth in the future, as she has
sent In the past, o~ne-fourth Of all the
Presbyterian ministers, all of them
ready to give everyone who asks 1t a
reason for the faith that is in them.
Holds to Old standards.
Personally. 1 belong to the n
element of the board that is ready ia
meet present-day requirements with
present-day equipment. l have been in
touch with the students In recent wears
and have had them assisting me in INV
work here. But I do not believe that
1t is necessary to dishonor men whose
scholarly reputation is the seminary's
greatest asset, or to throw over the
standards which the large majority of
the presbyteries, including Newark, still
believe in"