Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-12-02
Or. HUME TALKS
IN CHAPEL
Reads Letter To Students.
Makes Frank And Common Sense
Talk To Student Body.

| On last Wednesday morning during
the chapel hour, DR.. Hume, now act
ing Chancellor, made an open, sincere
talk to the student-body in which he
explained much that was misunder-
stood and told some things that were
not known. His speech was relative
ito the excitement that grew out of
the recent withdrawal of a number
of students and the feelings that de-
veloped from Mr.. Waugh's letter in
a late issue of The Mississipoian.
The openess and sincerity OF DR..
Hume's address were the factors that
relieved the disagreeable tension that
rested more or less on every soul at
Ole Miss.
In the course of his talk DR.. Hume
stated that he had received letter
from patron regarding the late
Withdrawals from The University.
This gentleman demanded to know
why student should be requested to
sign QUESTIONABLE that would
cause him to violate an oath, to cast
his honor to the winds. DR.. Hume
Immediately replied to this letter,
laying forth conditions exactly as
they existed. The patron lost no
time in acknowledging the receipt of
DR.. Hume's explanation, stating
the prevailing circumstances. The
gentleman also declared that he be-
lieved there are many other patrons
of Ole Miss who are likewise mis-
informed, and requested that the ex-
act conditions be made known.
The Mississippian is undertaking
to put this information squarely be-
fore the public, and we give below
correct copy of DR.. Hume's letter to
the above mentioned gentleman.
November Is, 1920.
Dear Sir:
received in his absence, has just been
handed me.
There has been a great deal of mis-
information in regard to conditions
at the University, due to what has
appeared in the newspapers and to
other more or less unreliable sources.
Apparently, there is more excitement
throughout the State than exists right
here. So far as | am able to judge,
tings are running along smoothly
with us, students are, working well,
and fairly normal conditions prevail.
There is no serious disorder, and the
! Campus atmosphere is reasonably
clear and, calm.
| believe that the large majority
of the Student Body was not engage
/ ed in the recent disturbance, thSt they
were not in sympathy with 1T, and
did not approve of it. Tt was de
cided minority, | think THAT had a
grievance and that manifested re-
| belliousa spirit. Most of our STUDENTS
do not actively participate in any
thing that was touched by the re-
cent regulations adopted by the
Board of Trustees A relatively
small number only has withdrawn,
possibly twenty-five or thirty, leav-
ing nearly six hundred still on the
grounds, going about their Univer-
sity duties in an orderly and prop
er way, accomplishing, in the main,
what they came here for and that
for which the institution was first
established and is now maintained.
i If anyone has received unjust
treatment at the hands of the au-
thorities, | do not know of it. So
far as | am informed, nobody has
been asked to answer questions or to
divulge facts that would at all af
feet his honor or even embArass a
man who has done right and pur
poses to do right. In this connec-
ton, |. am sending you copy OF the
QUESTIONABLE which contains all the
questions, pertaining to FrateInlties
that have been asked, so far as |
Know. Question No. 2 was con-
Z strued by the authorities as calling
for statement OF membership in a
National Greek-letter Fraternity
only, the name of the Fraternity not
;, being required.
. Fraternity men were given week
O in which to answer these questions.
In. The meantime, any young man. had
r the privilege of withdrawing from
e the University with an honorable
discharge. In no way did he have
: to compromise himself.
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