Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-22
Penn Trustees
Split on PenneH

tohunued from rage one
was the subject of general talk FRIENDS
OF the veteran promised swift retana-
! tion for the action Of the house COM
mittee in suspending him. The exact
made public.
SAYS PENNELL WAS NAUGHTY
The degree was not revoked, but mere
ly suspended. according to Joseph IT,
! Rosengarten. a trustee. who upheld the
committees action.
MIR. Pennell made naughty boy on
himself" he said. He put himseli III
a position open to criticism ana rioi-
Guile because OF present conditions no
matter of fact. the degree was merei!
suspended until popular criticism against
! him should have been over.
/ The suspension. however. became h'a'
when Mr. Pennell declined the honor.
j. Bertram Lippincott. also a pronh-
nent member of the Art club. today ue-
cried the Withholding OF the degree.
He expressed the very emphatic view
that. whatever Mr.. Pennell may or may
not have said in the club, 1t was not u
matter which should have concerned the
! Board OF trustees.
~ know Mr. Penneli very well. ana IL
| is my opinion that he Is no more pro-
, German in his thoughts than is Generai
/ Pershing" said Mr.. Lippncott. =,
! "Of course. these are war times anu
mems remarks are taken more seriously
! and given more rigid Interpretation
. than under normal conditions but' d.
most Pennell is charged with no overt
act with having committed no crime,
and therefore | do not believe that an
incident affecting Pennell and his feIa
tions with the Art Club was any Dusl-
ness whatever OF the board of trustees.
"Pennell was to have been AWARDED q
degree for the work he had done ana
cannot see why Il should have been
withheld for some remarks made in the
privacy OF club"
Mr.. Lippincott indicated that a mum :
ber Of other members OF the board OF
trustees shared his views
CRITICISM CONTINUES
Harrison $. Morris. one of the men
who made the Pennsylvania Academy
Cf the Fine Arts leading art insti'
tuition. and son-in-law of Joseph Whar'
ton. founder of the Wharton School oi
Finance Of the University. declared TO-
day that Philadelphia. mortified by
the trustees action. demands an expla'
nation from the University.
LOUIS Mautlfd. trustee bl Nuf W
versity. says that revocation Of the de
: gree IL private matter and the I'M
yersity trustees have no occasion t'
explain It," Mr. Morris said. My be
lief IL that the University is publi'
institution. maintained principally by
public funds. and that it owes an eN
planation of the act to the public; tina
the public suffers by the unwise acti
Of the University and that the citizen'
are mortified by what il does that sucf
acts az the present one are typical q
: the attitude OF ALI public institutions II
Philadelphia against art. and that thi'
has driven from Philadelphia artists wh'
, do us honor by their achievements, ou
/ find it safer to live elsewhere
Wharton Barker. trustee. refused t'
discuss the incident.
Mr.. Pennell Is in himself an insti
tuition, immensely more important to I'M
! world at large than either the Art Clu'
or the University" was the opinion o.
f. Walter Taylor. 6ne OF the country
/ foremost illustrators and member o
+ the club.
The fact that certain members OF TN
Art Club are not above washing dirt!
linen oh Broad street and that thereb!
|, the University of Pennsylvania has beel
, Influenced In it's decision not to confe
the expected degree IL, after all. OF lit
I tie moment. Mr.. Pennell has no AK t
= grind and certainly no action to defenf
a To question his loyalty as citizen
: the United States could never occur Z
any man whose vision Is free from tn
, stupldities of clubdom and the marrow
hypocrisy OF academic jugglery."
: Through an error the advance cop!
of the speech of Sir Robert A. Falconer
president of Toronto University, wn
was the University Day orator at tn
: University's graduation exercises 10
, day, was attributed TO Mr.. Pennell an
as such was published in morning
newspaper to1ey.
Excerpts from this speech, whc'
, praised English institutions. wer
printed as having been prepared by Nj
, Pennel for the occasion. The erro
r was not detected until the ,afternoo
newspapers had sought verificatlon.