The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30
TRUSTEES CALLED
 FOR TOMORROW TO
 GO INTO SUBJECT
To Denny's Charge of "Tem- peramental Unfitness" Prof. Losey Files Formal Charges Before Board Against President

The state of Alabama has been stirred by the news Of the special meet ing of the board of trustees of the
 University of Alabama, which has been called for tomorrow morning at o'clock at the university to consider troversy between President Denny and Dr. Frederick D. LOsey, head of the department of rhetoric and public speaking.
 l The controversy was ccasioned by the notification which President Denny served on Professor Losey about one week ago 1 to the effect that he would not recom- mend the professor for reelection at the meeting of the board of trustees at the close of the present session.
 | Professor Losey, in turn, has made cer-
 tain charges against President Denny. among them being that President Denny | has obiterated or changed the grades set
 out on certain report cards of students. | Professor Losey goes into details in re-
 gard to these charges and, among other
 things, demands of the board of trustees | that freSlQent Denny De feHlONeu lIoiii 1 his office.
 ALUMNI ARE SILENT 1 Hugh Morrow, member of the board of
 trustees from the Ninth district, and one
 of the best known of the alumni of the institution, stated yesterday that he had
 received notice of the meeting of the board in Tuscaloosa Monday, and that
 he would attend. MT. Morrow stated that | he could not at this time discuss the | matter. Other prominent local alumni l evnced the keenest interest in the stua- | ton. but all asked to be excused from l expressing any opinion for publication. | Under date of December g. Professor | Losey wrote to Dr. Denny stating that l Asa Rountree, a student of the university, l had showed him his report card, which he claimed was in the condition in which t was received by MT. Rountree's parents. | Professor Losey stated that he was sur prised to find that the report of the i work done by MT Rountree under Pro- | lessor Losey was omitted or concealed as to be undecipherable. Professor Losey charged that the grade made by the stu I dent in biology which was "F,' was ob-
 liberated apparently by the same pen
 which signed the name of President i Denny. Professor Losey stated that he | had z previously heard from various
 sources that President Denny was in the
 habit of defacing grades on report cards.
 but he had never before seen any positive evidence of such work. As a member of
 the teaching staff of the university, Pro-
 lessor Losey stated that he desired to
 enter his protest against this practice.
 TASTY DEDUCTIONS l Under date of December 6, President Denny replied to the charges of Profes- 1 sor Losey contained in the previous com munication. President Denny stated that
 the letter of Professor Losey was a clear demonstration that he had it in his power to make nasty and unlSind deduc- tions precisely as he had known him to
 make hitherto concerning other colleagues. ] President Denny declared that Professor l Losey's attempt to ascribe improper mo- | tives to the alleged attempt to obliterate the report card of Mir. Rountree would, in due time, receive proper attention | President Denny further stated that no "F'' grade could have been properly made 1 on the report card of MT. Rountree be- cause that student never attempted to take this examination, He calls atten- l tion to the fact that the report card in | question does show grade of 'F'' in mathematics and "E in English, and l President Denny suggests that it would | occur to any normal man that this process of "obliteration'' would have applied in | these instances as well in the case | which Professor Losey mentioned. | President Denny stated that he was not | re sponsible for the things which Professor | Losey hears from various sources. Pres l ident Denny states that the simple truth | is that Professor Losey within recent months allowed a personal animus pro- ceeding from an incident in which he did his plain duty as he Presdent Denny) saw it to render him Qosey) incapable
 of dealing fairly and justly with him | Denny).
 LOSEY ASKS QUESTIONS 1 Under date of December 6, Professor | Losey replied to President Denny with a 1 series of questions as follows: Tn reiterating my protest, I beg respectfully to submit the following questions:
 First, did you obliterate the grade l in biology on the card sent to MT. Asa Rountree's parents?
 Second, if the grade as placed on his card was wrong, whye not the proper grade substituted?
 Third, was your memorandum on the