Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-20
STUDENTS STRIKE;
COME TO NEWARK
Men Dissatisfied With COndi-
tiOns at Jersey City
College.
SAY FACILITIES WERE
POOR AND TUTORS ABSENT
Heads of Hudson County lnsti-
tuition Say Fault Is
With Students.

College of Pharmacy in this city are
twenty-five students who until Tues
day last were members of the Junior
class of the department of pharmacy
of the University of New Jersey in
Jersey City.
They admit that after a conference
with the acting dean Of the Jersey
City institution, Joseph Coppell. on
Monday afternoon they decided toI
walk out of the university, and at a
meeting held Tuesday morning they
began negotiations for admittance to
the New Jersey College of Pharmacy
with the president of that institution,
William o. Kuebler
stories Differ.
AS to just what caused the walk
out of the students the latter them
selves and the university authorities
differ. The. boys claim that since the
dean of the institution, Henry j.
Lohman, was taken i'll early In IN.
term and forced to retire things were
run at the university in slipshod
manner.
The professors, they claimed,
showed up for classes and lectures
whenever they felt like it. there was
no organization or discipline. and, in
short, they were allowed to shift for
themselves. The laboratory equip-
ments were not up TO the standard,
they averred, and after protesting to
the acting dean, Mr.. Coppell, who
promised to remedy conditions, but
failed to do so, they decided TO quit
the institution and make application
to enter the local College of Phar-
macy.
Students Claim Deception.
When seen by an Evening Star re-
porter, Irving NJ. Rosenblun. of New
York. who acted as chairman of this
committee which laid before Mr.. Cop
pell the statement of their grievances.
declared that they had been greatly
deceived.
Most of us heard of the University
of New Jersey through Professor
Adolf Schnitter, who Is a member of
the faculty. who said; THE name uni
.yersity attracted us, but when We
registered we were surprised to osflnd.
an old frame f5uilding with poorly
equipped laboratories werefcorl-
pelied TO pay IS apiece for our lock-.
ers and paraphernalia in the cherni-
cal .lab,' and we never received our
full equipment Why, there was only
one microscope to be used by the en-
tire class. While Mr.. Lohman was
there the professors appeared pretty
regularly, but after he was compelled
to leave the professors appeared to
be Indifferent as to whether we ad
class or not. Figuring that we were
not getting what we were paving for
and receiving no satisfaction from
Mr.. Coppell when We protested
against conditions at the university,
we decided to quit and Immediately
made application to Mr.. Kuebler and
were accepted as students here
The Other SIDES story.
Members of the board of trustees CT
the University tell quite d .fferent
story. The students walked out" be-
cause tho trustees would not remove
Professor Osais, the instructor in
botany, whom they claimed Ffas to
strict in his examinations.
With James Pope, president of the
Pope Metal Company. Of New York
city, who is president of the board
of trustees of the institution, and
Joseph A. O'Connor, secretary of the
board of trustees, a prominent Jersey
City real estate operator, an Evening
star representative, personally in
spected the department of pharmacy
at the university today.
Aside from the fact that the build
ing is very old one, having been the
home .of the Brinkerhoff family and
the house in which Senator Brinker-
hoff lived for several years, there
seemed to be nothing to support the
contention of the students that the
facilities were not of the best.
MIR. Pope Explains.
Mr. Pope explained that none of the
members of the faculty receive any
compensation for their services and
that one man comes all the way from
Long Branch to lecture. The mem-
bers of the faculty are all capable
men. some of them graduates OF the
Sheffield Scientific School, OF Yale, and
other well, known institutions.
Both Mr.. Pope and Mr.. O'Connor
were emphatic in declaring that the
students that quit the institution
were the most dissatisfied class that /
had been enrolled there during the |
five years which the institution has
been in existence. Mr.. Pope showed I
the Evening Star representative three
chairs and two windows. which ne
ayerred the members of the junior |
class had destroyed, and was sup |
ported in his contention by Mr. |
O'Connor and Mrs. Van Pelt, the |
ianitress of the institution. Mr. |
Pope explained that while the build
ing was not as modern as the trus- }
tees would like to have it, the facill- /
ties were there and the intention is |
to build modern building as soon |
as the necessary funds are available.
seniors Refuse 40 ouit.
Mr.. Pope. pointed to the fact that
no dissatisfaction has been ex-
pressed by the members of the senior
class, and also to the fact that seven
members of the junior class refused
to leave with their colleagues as evil |
dence of the fact that the strikers
were decidedly in the minority.
Mr.. Pope also called attention to |
the fact that the members of the
board of trustees were all men OF
good standing and Fepute in the con'-
munity, the treasurer Of the board
OF trustees of the institution. Joseph |
E. Bernstein, being a member OF the
Jersey City Board of Education.
President William o. Kuebler. Of
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