The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30

senior law student of whom you spealO, ana MT Rountree are members or your college through your influence. On your receipt of my letter of December ,, the | Iacts, you went to your chapter house and calling these boys to one side, asked them to tell you what l had said in my talks with them about that report card. Can It be possible that a college president Who would decline to summon one of his 1 professors into his presence in order to probe facts and who instead would go to students and ask them what that pro- lessor had said-can it be possible that that president can tell me what accepted procedure is in academic circles! IT you wanted to know what happened and what was said why did you not at least summon me along with the two students. and hear my version? Instead. you pre- Ter to dismiss me to avoid friction.
 'T'he injustice of the charge that l rave 'absented myself from my duties and from the university in defiance of the regulations of the trustees nobody can know so well as yourself. You know that l am never absent from the univer- sity except when I am called to do work Of an educational nature, You know that you have repeatedly urged me to accept engagements which I sought to escape. I have been absent from the uni versity this year just five days: CD On CNNehs7iCIi 'NNA dresses in Birmingham before the Teach CTS institute; @ on the occasion of my delivering an address before the Drama league of Birmingham; (3 a recital for the High school at Huntsville; CD a recital at the Florence normal (5D recital at the High school at Guin.
 ''1f you do not care to sec me; if you are fully satisfied in your own mind that you are acting within the bounds ot both wisdom and justice. then it appears to me that I am in honor bound to de- fend to the utmost my good name in tha state and in the college world
 FORMAL CHARGES MADE
 Under date of January 2S, Professor Losey makes against President Denny the formal charges which he has since presented to each member of the board of trustees in writing and which will come before the board of trustees at the meeting at the university at Tusca- loosa tomorrow morning. This final letter of Professor Losey follows in full:
 'ln my letter of January 26 ad- dressed to you, I stated that l should welcome the privilege of seeing and talking with you personally in case my answer to your charges failed to carry conviction or if there still re- mained in your mind some things upon which we do not agree. l have now waited 4S hours in expectation of summons to your office. but have heard nothing from you. l conclude, therefore, that it is your intention to allow the differences between us to proceed to solution at the hands of the trustees
 "In view of the fact that your deci- sion to dismiss me from this faculty is traceable directly to my protest against certain practices of yours set forth in my letter of December g. and in view also of the fact that you have not in any of your replies to me cleared yourself of the implications of moral turpitude involved in such practices, l hereby charge directly that you are morally unfit to serve longer as pres- ident of the University of Alabama; that your influence is deleterious to the character of the youth of this state; that you have been guilty of conduct, which, if discovered in one of our stu dents, would warrant his expulsion from this university; and I hereby de- mand that in the protection of the good name of this state you be dismissed from your high office:
 "First, because you did, with an in- tent to deceive, obliterate the grade in biology on MT Asa Rountrees report card and sent the card in that condi- tion to his parents.
 Second, that you did, with the pur- pose of deception, conceal upon his report card his grade in public speak ing and sent the card in that condi- tion to his parents.
 Third, that you have committed sim liar offenses on other report cards with a view to deceiVing parents as to the quality of work done by their children at this university.
 "These charges I shall present inn mediately to the individual members of the board of trustees, l shall also submit them as soon as possible to the public press of this state."
 DENNIS FINAL REPLY
 President Denny, under date of Jan- uary 27, replied to the charges of Pro- lessor Losey under date of January 26 the delay being caused by the absence of President Denny from Tuscaloosa. The reply in full follows:
 q am acknowledging your letter of January 26 in which I find so many inaccuracies of inference and even of statement, as I understand the facts that it would seem an almost endless task to undertake a reply in detail. To illustrate the character of these in accuracies, I may say that your inter- pretation of my letter of January P as dismissal is not justified by the letter itself. That letter was designed merely to give you fair and ample mo- tice of my decision not to recommend you for reappointment to your present position after the expiration of the present session. At your suggestion, conveyed through Dean Barnwell, l added the reasons that had led me to that decision. There is. furthermore no intimation in that letter that you will not have every possible opportun- ity to appear before the board of trus- tees I am satisfied that a careful