Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-11
PaOCTER REPORT
SAVES PRINCETON
FhCULIY SPLIT
''Colorless" Findings of Trus.
tees Said to Have Averted
Serious Breach.
PRESIDENT WILSON AND
DEAN WEST AT ODDS
Alumni and College Papers to
Keep After $5O0,O00
Gift Offer.

4 serious breach between members
Of the faculty Of Princeton University
over the scope and general plan of the
proposed graduate college was averted
by the board of trustees at meeting
yesterday, when they adopted what is
termed by all concerned "colorless
report on the withdrawal of the S500,00o
gift Of William Cooper Proctor. OF Gin
cinnati.
Mr.. Proctor on May 8. 1909, sent a
letter to Prof. Andrew f. West dean
of the university, offering to give the
sum stated for a graduate college, if
alike sum was raised by the alumni
and through other sources by Mdy /,
this year. The second $500.000 was
practically raised when Mr.. Proctor
Withdrew his offer because President
Woodrow Wilson insisted that The
graduate college buildings be built ON
the golf links, as separate buildings,
and not in conjunction with the john
r. Thompson Graduate College, Tor
which a sum of about 100000 was be-
Queathed to the university by Mrs.
Joseph a. Thompson Swami on her
leath in March, 1896.
The whole controversy arose over just
where the two schools should be situ-
ated, but back If it all Is the fight be-
tween factions of the faculty. which
has now extended to the board of trus-
tees, as to, what the scope of the new
graduate course shall be and how far
ii shall extend. The question of build
iilgs has, for the time being at lie ST.,
sunk into the background. From pres
ent indications, it Is liable to remain
there for some time.
Graduate Tells of Clash.
.sThat there ls a. difference OF opinion
between President Woodrow Wilson
and Dean Andrew r. West as to what
shall constitute the course and scope
In the Graduate School Is apparent to
all who have followed affairs a.
Princeton" said a Newark graduate
today.
president Wilson is an adherent of
the group plan of buildings and the
raising Of scholarship by keeping all
branches of the university in close
radius on the campus. On the other
hand. Dean West has always been
against the club system and thinks it
better to scatter the different depart
rnents of the univ. rsity over all parts
OF the properly owned by the univer-
sity instead of punching them.
a'That, though, has nothing to do
with the difference of opinion as TO
the Graduate School course. and 1t Is
this that has divided both the faculty
"a the board of trustees. With the
Arless' report adopted by the special
abi.tee on the withdrawal OF tne
1lrr f1al
0.be dropped for the time being
ings get down to normal form
Nv days"
Ethe breach was serious is shown
Etfact that the board of trustees
called Yesterday to hear the
Aof the special committee did
Hk hut ADOPT the recommendation
NJ special committee consisting of
II zbixon, Cleveland H. Dodge, Henry
~ heen. Henry B. Thompson and
~ Or{as d. Jones, without word OF
Eainent.
This recommendation was as follows:
This committee recommends that the
hoard again express to Mr. Proctor It's
deem appreciation of his munihcent
offer and puts upon record its profound
resrat that he has deemed 1t wise TO
withdraw it. The board INDUCES In the
hope. that in the near future Mr.. Proc
ter may be moved to reopen the ques-
tion. when it is confidently believed
Nat an agreement can be reached sat-
s>,actorily to him and to this board"
No Address to Trustees.
President Woodrow Wilson did not
address the trustees: neither did any
az the members discuss the recommen-
dation OF the special committee in any
way. 1T had been agreed before hand
not to do so.
Therein lies the gist of the whole
matter. The board of trustees knew
that a discussion at this time would
fear off the lid Of the entire contro-
versy between the members OF the
faculty, headed respectively by Presi-
dent Wilson and Dean West. There
fore they did nothing but accept the
Recommendation of the committee,
allowed the whole matter to drop and
,.,,l now try to restore harmony be-
fweefl the two factions.
ne The Proctor offer Is to be renewed
a viii be through the effort of the
aluuni and the college papers. That
Is the general belief of the Newark
graduates who have followed the whole
fhing closely. Princeton does not want
,oslose the $780, ,o00 offered by Mr.. Proc
tsr. ard the pledges for almost as much
,Y.ore raised through other sources But
,he trustees have adopted a hands-off
noricy until such time as the shoulder
ing fire Of strife between the two fac
.,ons ia the faculty has died out.
S.lThe alumni are not tied down, and
fhey will keep after that million dol
lars for a graduate college" said
Newark lawyer. and one of the most
,oro,ninent of Priceton alumni today
Tn the meantime there is nothing do
ing in the plans for the new graduate
coliere. Not even smoke can be seen
f5r the fiery times that Threatened
between the faculty factions were halt
ed yesterday when the trustees dumped
d blanket on the whole thing and
snnothercd any chance of an outbreak.
ssy.he Woa@--. p~~.. o~w,-.suet.,s
s..<, aplu1ood and q ssreal VAUDEVILLE ei1uB