The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30
NOT MOST SERIOUS PHASE

2 You have criticized the authorities to individual students. And that is not the most serious phase of the situation. A graduate of the college of arts and sciences, now a senior in the school of law has stated to me that following such critisim made in his presence you sought, after ascertaining that your con- duct in this regard had been reported to the authorities to influence him to sign a statement prepared by you in your own defense, although said statement did not represent the facts of the case as they
 were clearly understood by him and by another student who was present at the
 time the criticism was made. Such ac-
 tion on the part of a professor is not in
 accord with accepted procedure in the calling of the teacher indeed in any calling.
 8. There are other instances relating to your attitude and method of procedure that might be cited, if there were need of so doing. 1 might stress for instance your action in absenting yourself from your duties and from the university in plain defiance of the regulations of the trustees, and your action in disregardins the terms of my letter to you dated March 1, 1913 under which you accepted an increase in your salary. I refrain, however, from pursuing further this statement which l am transmitting to you with profound regret"
 CLAIMS PERSONAL ANIMUS
 Under date of January 26, Professor Losey replied to President Denny. He notified the presdnt that he would seek the privilege of appearing before the trustees of the university to defend him. self against the charges made by Pres ident Denny. He wrote in part as fol- lows:
 T maintain that you seek my dismissal, not for the good of the university, but because of a personal animosity toward me arising directly from my letter of protest addressed to you on December 3, 1915; t~tt this animosity was revealed clearly in your reply of December G. which contained various charges impugning my motive in addressing you, and an implied threat of dismissal.
 You say that my retirement from Syra- cuse university was enforced. Let me caution you not to publish that state ment. My resignation from that institu- tion is matter of record. It was neither enforced nor requested It was purely voluntary and was based upon a ruling of Chancellor Days, which, in my judg- ment, was so destructive of proper aca demic standards that I preferred to re- sign rather than to remain,
 My relations with the University of Alabama extend over a period of nine years, during which time approximately
 ZOOo students have passed through my hands. If l were a man given to dealing with them unfairly forcing trouble 1 upon them they would have been the first to find me out, and my work, which is almost entirely elective, would have been stunned And yet my class book shows enrolment during this half year of be- tween 290 and 300 students, or more than half the total number enrolled in the 1 College of Arts and Sciences, and of this | n hon al e,t,,
 viousy the students themselves do not
 shun me through any fear of friction. CRITICISM OF FAREWELL Your charges that I have criticized the 1 head of my department at the University 1 of Alabama are perfectly true if you do not attach an improper meaning to the word criticized. I have at times diff fered with him as to the wisdom of poli- ces or plans affecting the department, | but more particularly affecting my own work. l have sought to avoid making 1 such matters personal, and if ever in
 our discussions we have either of us in 1 dulged in hot words. 1 hope l have utterly i 1orSotten them. I am wholly unconscious l or having ever impugned his motives I 1 assume, however, that since he is in your confidence, he has made 1t clear to you ' that he entertains some feeling against
 me and remembers some things which ! | nave forgotten. My only concern, now
 ever, in any differences which have arisen ! between us, has been for the good of the l departmnt and the university
 l What my criticism of you has been | You do not specify. If you refer to my l letters Of December Sd and 7th they speak
 Tor themselves, and were addressed to
 you with a full consciousness of their | nature and only because l felt that it | would he coWardly on my part not to | make d protest in the light of facts of such serious import which had been thrust l under my eye. Furthermore. l wrote my i letter of December 3 only after a long l talk with Dr. Barnwell in which learned i that he also knew and deplored the facts, regretted your persistence in writing on 1 the face of report cards, but assured me 1 m so many words that he had not the , moral courage to speak to you about it. 1 INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS | What you say about reports from in- l diVldual students hardly merits a reply.