The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-25
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.PRESID nj OFV /.
10 F'lAC CE AC CCUSERS
Hearing Begins TO, D Day a,
Blacksburg, with Long List
OF Charges Against 1nsti-
tute's Head Both Sides
il Readiness for Hard
Battle.

Battle.
BY5ALExANDER FORWARD. s:s
HlacksburE, Va, March .4.-On tl,ai
eve OF perhaps the only instance -
the history OF higher educa Il onal In
tons In America when I con ~
mittec OF the alumni has prose cutc1s
charges against the president of 4,
great college, one fact stands out
clearly and prominently in the n,intl.
OF the opposing forces ana must nor
be disrcgardcd In the interest OF pre- .:. /.
serving a bnlnncc. II II that not Dr.
barrinEcr's character, but his charnu-E
tcristics MS the head OF NC tool i u,,t
his honesty, but his tact, not his in-
tcRrit! but his executive ability, Swilt
be on trial before the hoard OF syi,i-
tors of the Virginia Polytechnic Innti.
tutc to-norrovv.9 9l sit
II questions OF untruthfuIness ara
raised, they will be attributed to moral II
incapacity, not to moral peryersity.
To the invcstigntor II quickly becomes
apparent that beyond ana below the
questions MS to the kind OF Jokes the 3
president tells, or how many dishes !
the the averaEe student breaks In ntl
average year In gentle recreation II,
the mess hall, or how much ofiictnl Ii
notice the professors received before
their nccks met the gulllotinc, stretch
nnplumbcd depths.
Somebody's Head NIust Fall, ~
I. He who asks questions will within
ten minutes find the flood OF past years
OF facts and fancies. politics and per-
sonalities ,cngulfng him. He Will
drown within twenty minutes unless
he gets back to the surface and stays
there. For not only the president. hut.
Ito a large extent, the board itselfis on
trial. And speaking of sdecapitations,
4 no matter what the Yer dict may be In
Ito-morrows $ trial. saomebod head Will
1 fall into the bas Ike t. It may not be-
n tlli week or his session.ssit may bes
one head sor IT may be another. eg,sssi
Everybody tonight Is ready for the
fray. On the one side is the welfare
|icommittee of the Alumni Association.
Eheaded by Lawrence Priddy. with
4 Speaker Byrd as Its counsel paying Its
own expenses and spending literally the
time of its members, under a convic-
jltion that nll is not we'll with alma
mater and that the president Is respon-,
|sible.
DR.. Barringer. with Daniel Harrnan #
as his attorney. is fighting for his pro-
Tess ional extstence. declaring some
OF the charges trivial. fatty denying
others and explaining g. such mis- takes as
he admits have occurred
More Charges Filed. NJ
To the already long list of speciti-33
others. Notice was served H on On the
president ana hey became Intense inS
the M Indictment. !, One Of these is that
pr. 2 i, barringer m has Permitted an In,
and convicted Of a violation OF @tlle
Byrd law, In giving. liquor to students,
to etain his position IN the college.
Slous and scandalous articles to be
printed in the college pa per. ST he II
8ginia5 gin; Tech, w hose effects ..to bring
Sistered by the officials Of the town sof v
lBlacksburg into disrepute.''
!. lA sentence In one Of Il, arti icles 10
ferred to, all of Which, are supposed
before being publish led ia ks of how
"tlle majesty OF the law may be made
"a atravestysa and a shame when a dminis=a
tered by those who have no personal
Add itional accusat ions are promised.S
One refers to Int Inference by Dr. Barr
ringer an the ethod Of structions
sl,300, wit h the result that IT. Is prac- 8
ttically #valueless. It is further SsaidS M
that the official In charge OF the mess
session Of eight, month and tyYents
days for breaka ge, and made the stu- q
dents pay tout !, Of their con ting emit
funds. This = Is estimate g to !lnea that
about / 90 dishes "a day We're broken
which is believed ITO be an impossible 5
thing, unless the boys played otbal 4 Ss
at every meal n 4 ma alSi ng forwar ss
Neither side has any statemen mt s3to5
make to-nig 1T. Prestde lent Earring ger
simply says tha = he WI Il. say all that
morrow. Mr. Priddys declared that he
alumni should never have been forced
Into the fight but II As IN II to the
ing until tie board acts. 3ga d
Mayor FIRTH, hs5 town S oh lief exec
utlve g tticer. IS aidin Mr. Byrd tho 81
But few OF the towns
boing non-comntttal.
8 Strings of ftidavits are In theS hands III III
q the attorneys, y, and Will he! presented M
underst oods who are WI ling L to- go on s5s
the stand and tell what they know sors ss8
Under these circu cunstances.ji
lsEa praGaea
how much time the investigation 81!
consume. Members OF the board wair
e R set through to-rlorrow n isht
i summit NJ I he sltnation one Is
q vi tors. comp sed of the sa ma N, am
hers wtth.4to a large extent similar
before It, cided u for gtha #
president q few months ago on tn
other hand, there are unlerous ad
ditional ions, and ~ is largely
upon the strengt OF Al long series Of
y lleEad "a VI ty 3Judg gmentss and deRgon-
stra tons Of ndamenta N I'm II ness u
the powers that bog OF he necessity tor
a change In the e5managnmnnt OF nv tr-l lg .
ginia's great technicals schaol, jsa
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was 9 shed Wi In ~ kIi ia Il hy ckss