New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-21
Want Truth from Trustees
on Dropping of Whar-
ton Professor.
N. Y. GRADUATES
TO TAKE LEAD
Founders Executor Indignant
at Action of University
Faculty.
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PHILADELPHIA, June 2O.-The demand
among alumni Of University Of Penn
svlyania tina: tho trustees make full
and free" explanation for the peremp-
tory dismissal Of Dr.. Scott Nearing
from the position OF assistant profess
soy n economies In the Wharton
School OF Finance is increasing in such
proportions as to portend serious
trouble. g.. :
From authoritative sources 1t Is
learned that a movement IS under way
TO carry the protest from influential
Graduates TO the board Of trustees with
an insistcnt request that they bare all
me facts which resulted IN Or Near
ing's expulsion from the faculty.
Another meeting of the Wharton
School faculty will be held tomorrow
morninC DR., Samuel McCune Lindsay,
Professor of Social Legislation at Co.
lumbia University, former instructor
in the Wharton School after CONFER
ring with the members OF the faculty
and alumni here, returned to New lorE;
II is likely the New York alumni VIII
take the initiative IN seeking an airing
of the Nearing case.
"Somc Of the trustees think the affair
will blow over in q few days, salG
Harrison S. Morris, chief executor OF
the estate of Joseph Wharton, VINO
founded the school. tonight, put IL
won't. We are going 10 keep IIGhV
at this thing until We get the truth
Indignation is growing among the
alumni. Names are being freely men
toned, and openly the charge IS DelhE
made that Dr. Nearing was dismissed
at the command" Of rich and powerful
members Of the board Of trustees VINO
took umbrage at hearings attitude
toward corporations and PREDATORY
wealth" and his strong public utter
ances on economic and soclologlc queS-
tions.
Manufacturers Demanded Head.
"If Won want to know who was the
handspring in the demands upon the
trustees that DR.. Nearing be ousted. II
was Joseph Grundy, president or the
PENNSYLVANIA Manufacturers Assocla-
ton" said prominent Phlladelphlai
alumnus to-day. "Dr. Nearing incurred
the enmity of the corporations and they
demanded his head as a penalty.
have even heard it said that Mr.. Grumpy
sought TO have Governor BrumDaugh
cut the university appropriation as re-.
taliation for the continued retention OF
DR.. Nearing on the faculty"
All these reports have spread among
the alumni during the last few days
and have gained strength from the con,
tinued refusal Of Provost Smith ana
the board of trustees to make an OK
planatory statement.
That il was incumbent upon the
trustees to clear the muddle with
straightforward explanation was the
opinion expressed last night by henry
Budd, a widely known attorney and Tor
many wears president of the university
alumni in this city. Mr.. Budd IS one OF
many alumni who have literally bonn
barded Provost Smith with letters ask
inc the reason for DR.. hearings dis
missal.
at is a matter of greatest i'm
portance for the sake of the reputation
of the university" said Mr. Budd, that
the truth be known. If DR.. Nearing
was dismissed for what he said IN a
personal capacity, then it is tyranny TO
punish him" .
During very recent years seven in
structors have withdrawn from the
Wharton School Of Finance and Com
merce at the University Of Pennsyl-
vania.
Professor J. T. Shotwell, Of the his
tory department of Columbia Uni
versity. after asking that he be not
ovo+aJ IN this particular case, SAID: