Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-27
CHAPTER K.
The Graduate College Contest,

The Graduate College Contest r~1HE story now becomes com
 plicated through the inJec- E- ton of another issue that. Szg namely. of tue graduate col iege Some time before the election of Professor Wilson to the presidency Professor Andrew F. West. a brilliant and persuasive member cf the faculty. with ambitions. had been given the title of dean of the graduate school. together with an appropriation of g.. 500 to be used in studying graduate systems of instruction in various ami versailles. Dean West went 10 Europe for a year. returned and published a sulnptuous little volume containing an elaborate and highly illustrated scheme for graduate college. it was never seen by the faculty. The book was sent by Dean West to likely contrib utors among the alumni.
 ln December of 1906 Mrs J A Thompson Swann. dying. left S2J0.OO0 for the beginning of graduate college Among the conditions of the gift was the provision that the new college should be located upon grounds of the university.
 In the spring of 1909, through the in fiuence of Dean West. Mir. William C. Proctor of Cincinnati offered S5COOO0 for the graduate college on condition that another half million dollars be raised. Mir. Proctors letter seemed to imply that the money must be used in carrying out the scheme formulated by Dean West It also condemned the site chosen for the graduate college by the trustees. In his second letter address ed to President Wilson Mir. Proctor named two locations which alone would be acceptable to him.
 So long as Dean Vests scheme for a graduate school was a paper plan only. it had received no special exami- nation. But when these two bequests made its realiZa ton possible the plan was given scrutiny. It was apparent to many of the trustees and faculty that Dean Vests elaborate plan was not one to which they were prepared 10 commit themselves definitely. A special committee of five. appointed by the president of the board of trustees. reported against the unconditional ac- eeptance of MT. Proctor's gift.
 Mfr. Proctor's answer was a with. drawal of his offer.
 The withdrawal naturally caused a sensation and brought down upon the head of President Wilson all the vials of wrath that had not been already emptied upon him. IL was inconceiy. able to some in the board of trustees, to large number of the alumni and to a portion of the faculty that a gift of S5O0OOO (carrying with it indeed the prospect of another SjO0.000 for this had already been nearly subscribed could be rejected on any consideration whatsoever But in view of the per fectly clear position taken by Prest dent Wilson, backed at that time by the majority of the trustees. the pas sionate outcry against them shown by some Princetonians of general repute for intelligence and conscience does seem inexplicable. IL was a perfectly clear case. President Wilson and the trustees were no doubt infinitely oblig ed to NIT. Proctor; they were eager to accept his gift. but they simply could not abrogate the duties of their office they simply could not surrender te any donor the right to determine the Hniversity's policy in So grave matter as that of Its graduate school. It was they who were charged with the duty of administering the university, not Mir. Proctor
 Furthermore. the particular plan which unconditional acceptance of Mir ProctoF's gift would have forced on Princeton was one utterly opposed to the principles in devotion to which the university under it's presidents guidance was now so happily edvanc- ing
 To President Wilson It's details were altogether obnoxious. Since the sub ject of graduate staay had been taken up the dean and the president had moved in opposite directions. one to- ward segregation and exclusiveness. the other toward an organic whole. CO., operative. shot through with a com mon motive and spirit and stimulated by a common life of give and take. President Wilson had his own plan for 6 graduate sch0oi-a plan that sprane natgraliy out Of the new system of studies and the preeeptorial organiza- tion-but it was 8 plan that contem- plated corps of highly competent graduate instructors. proper laborato- rfes. an adequate library and the prae- ticaI essentials of study rather than the embroidery of fine buildings and seeiusi0n. "A university does not COD sist of buildings or of apparatus" he said "A university consists of stu dents and teachers
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