The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-10-09
DR.. SCARBOROUGH
DEFENDS SCHOOL
President Of WiIberiorce Re-
] plies to Magazine Article.
EXPLAINS TRUE SITUATION.

Unwarranted Attack on Noted Ohio In
stitution Greatly DispIeases Alumni
and Undergraduates - WiIberforee
=. University With All Departments 10
Simply One Institution. =
, Wilberforce.-The indignation Of Will
berforce university and large body of
alumni and undergraduates at the ar
ucle under the caption '"The New VIII
berforce'' found in the Crisis for Au.
gust compels reply, though we well
know that unsigned articles anywhere
usually merit only silent, contempt un-
less the editor gives tangible hold by
becoming sponsor for them. says Presi-
dent William 8. Scarborough Of Will
berforce university. sr-.
In such an article we are accustOm-
ed to seek at once the motives inspir-
ing it. In this case we are wondering
whether 1t was inspired by malicious
desire to strike the college department.
in particular, to beiittle what it has
done and injure its standing and work
for higher education, or by a piqued
spirit which sees an opportunity for
retaliation. or by spirit which thus
repays personal favors through ques-
tionable eulogiums, or was it real,
unadulterated ignorance stepped in
egotism? We must leave it for read
ers and those generally acquainted
with the situation to Judge. e
One thing is true, however, No one
is a real friend to the university or to
any Of its individual departments who
would strive thus publicly to magnify
the work Of any one department at the
expense Of another. And for any one
to Gull deliberately. isolate and twist
facts to make it appear that there is
but one department at Wilberforce that
is worth while and to try to convey
that 1t is not part Of Wilberforce.
but distinct school, is, to speak mild
~, an unmitigated attempt to SANDER
the whole institution, no matter what
the motive 1t becomes an attack that
cannot be overlooked. -. -. -.
: Wilberforce has done much recently
to honor the scholarly editor of, the
Crisis, and 1t has always stanchly
upheld the cause and the association
his magazine represents. Not three
months ago it invited him to be one
Of the speakers during it's commence
ment, and it readily acquiesced in his
selection as one of the lecturers in the
summer school (for the second time) in
the department he eulogizes at $175
for five lectures. Wilberforce univer-
sity is indeed courteously IN repaid for
this by the grateful editor. -.
One thing we state at the outset. The
New Wilberforce" has been verify
for some years. 1t Is Wilberforce uni
versity-the whole institution with all
its departments and not simply one of
them. No part can be- greater than
the whole. The determination Of ene-
mics, sinternal and external. to try
to swallow up, to ignore. to misrepre-
Ient the very department that is the
genesis of the whole. giving birth to
all the others and fostering their
growth, the part that stands for higher
education-this determination all au-
thorities here are agreed must not only
be condemned, but put down.
The department the article in the
Crisis seeks to put for the whole and
which calls forth such effusive praise
was placed here by, the state Of Ohio
In 1887, because 1t wished to help Will
berforce university, and this was the
only way 1t could do so. and because 1t
was just and right for 1t to be of serv-
ice to us as we did not receive share
Of the agricultural land grant under
the Morrill, act. which properly belong
ed to us. but which share went to Ohio
State university. 1t was never In
tended to be an independent depart
ment, and It is not one now.N The au-
thorities. one and all. recognize that
Wilberforce university with all fits de-
partments is unit and not conglom-
erate-a unit with but one head. and
that one the president Of the uni.
versity.
The article in question Is full Of dis,
tortion. Facts are partially stated or
omitted or put In wrong relations. The
jumbled confusion of statements. OF
AZ n AL