Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-15
SENIOR CADETS AT
A. & M. IN REVOLT
ASK APOLOGIES FROM PROPS
HIGHTOwER AND MAGRUDER.
81 STUDENTS ARE EXPELLED
Object to Rule Prohibiting Conversation
With Co-Eds-Young Ladies Uphold
Rules of the Faculty.

Starkville.-A spirit of rebellion that
has pervaded the student body for more
than a year came to a head Friday when
the senior class passed resolutions which
called on Vice-President Magruder and
President Hghtower for public apolo-
gy to the student body-from Prof. Ma
gruder for having the following order
issued and asking an apology from Pres
ident Hightower for not having the or
der revoked. Here is the order that
raised the row:
"By direction of the president, cadets
are informed that hereafter they will
not be allowed to visit the young ladies
of the college in their study rooms at
the noon hour, or periods when they are
not in recitation. Neither will they be
allowed to meet these young ladies in
the chapel or ether rooms for the pur-.
pose of social conversation or study"
The seniors are ineensed at the order
and had the resolutions passed which
were read at the chapel exercises by
Mr. Roper:
We, the members of the senior. class,
knowing and of mind that the young
ladies who are attending this institution
have been grossly insulted by both ac-
tion and word of W. H. Magruder of the
Mississippi A. and M. College faculty..
have adopted the following resolutions:
Want Public Apologies.
"First-That we demand that the
memorandum published ON Nov. Z, 1912.
be rescinded.
"Second-That the said w. II. Magru-
der make public apology to the stu.
dents and young ladies attending this
college.
sThird-That inasmuch as President
Hightower was party to the above
mentioned offense by not resembling the
aforesaid memorandum before published
when requested to do so, he shall like
wise make an apology of the same ma
ture. ss ~
Fourth Believing that this is tus-
tice to the young ladies, we demand said
action be made at once"
The professors of the school were at
their rooms for recitation work through
out the day, but few students reported
for duty. They were busily congregat-
ing in groups and meeting as classes
throughout the day, keeping the revo-
lutionary spirit rife. 1t was the plan
of the seniors to have the backing of
the entire student body and resolutions
of condemnation were to have been read
by every class through to the sub-fresh-
res
A large part of the co-eds signed the
following:
1--WE, the young ladies attending the
Agricultural College of Mississippi, ap-
preciate the order issued by the mill
tary department on Nov. to prevent
social conversation between the young
ladies in the study rooms at the noon
hour or periods when they are not in
recitation, as being intended to secure
for us better opportunity for study dur
ing said periods. We do not consider
the order in any sense as an insult, and
we are not offended at it.
At meeting of the faculty the fol-
lowing action was taken:
Two resolutions were passed dismiss
ing from the institution such seniors as
helped in formenting the rebellion, six
ty-one in number Thirty-fve in num-
Der were expelled from the institution
on account of misconduct at ,Birming-
ham on a trip with the football. team.
and having signed q pledge after their
return to in the future not violate the
regulations of the college
About as many others have been dis
missed, making clean sweep of the
entire class. with 9 possible exception
of four or five whose cases are being
further considered.