The Washington times., 1920-10-30
OUSTSFORMER
. D. c. OFFICIAL
Wooster College 0ismisses Pro.
lessor Chancellor for AIIeg. !
ed Political Activity.

Dismissal of Prof. William +.
Chancellor from the faculty, OF
Wooster College, Ohio, yesterday,
on charges of aspersing Senator
Harding in campaign circulars, re-
called to thousands of Washington
ians today the details of DR.. Chan
cellor's dismissal in 1908 AS super
intendent of schools in the District
Of Columbia.
DENOUNCED METHODS.
Trustees OF Wooster College an
nounced that they had made no effort
to establish the truth or falsity OF the
charges contained in the circulars.
but they denounced such political
methods as utterly unworthy OF our
college and country"
Dispatches from Wooster state that
Or. Chancellor, testifying before the
board. said that while conscious OF
the embarrassment occasioncd the
college, he felt in his breast that he
had done nothing wrong or i'm
proper"
The trustees in their statement
failed to specify just what the
charges are that DR.. Chancellor ad J.
mitted writing.
The ousted professor has taken an
active part in politics in Connecticut
and Ohio and in his own account OF
his life in Who's Who in America
says that he has delivered $500 lee
lures in all the States in the Union.
WAS ONCE ELECTOR.
In 1916 he was a Democratic Presi.
Dental elector. Two years ago he
was a candidate fo- Congress from
the Eighteenth Ohio district, while
he was a member of the faculty of
the College of Wooster. He was elect
ed member of the Wooster city
council in 1910. ana previous to that
time had taken an active part in
Wayne county politics. He was
chairman OF the -Four Minute Men"
committee in that ,vunty during the
war.
He has been a member of the fac
ulty of the College of Wooster for
the last ten years and has lectured at
many other universities, including
New York University and the Uni
versity of Chicago. He was head of
the history department of the Eras-
mus Hall High School in Brooklyn
in 1895, and later a lecturer on So
GEOLOGY in the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences. lie taught eco
Monies and sociology in the high
school in Norwalk, Conn, for several
years. and ran for mayor of Nor
walk. He was defeated in this, as in
all other candidates..
EDITOR OF PUBLICATION.
He is editor of the publication call
ed the Ohio Teacher in Columbus, and
Is the author of several books on ed
ucation, sociology and economies.
One of these books is called "Our
Presidents and Their office" This
book was a study of the Presidency,
particularly of the lives Of the men
who have occupied the White House,
and was published in 1911.
Professor Chancellor was born in
Dayton, Ohio, on September rs, 1867,
and was educated at Amherst and
European universities. He married
Louise Beecher, of Brooklyn, in 1892,
and for many years after s mar
also at Bloomfield and Paterson. ".
j., where he was superintendent OF
schools in those cities.
DISMISSED IN 1905.
DR.. Chancellor was dismissed as SUI
perintendent Of the public schools In
this city in zoos by unanimous vote OF
the Board of Education. Attacks on
him began as soon as he became su.
perintendent and year after he
took charge of the schools fourteen
charges were made against him.
These included inefficiency and in
competency: lack OF Judgment, tact
and mental poise; needlessly discard
ing 5,400 textbooks; wilfully exceed
ing authority; insubord' nation: libel,
linz thu nistrict of Colupnbia educa.
tional system: destroying discipline
ridiculing the commissioners an.i an
tagonlz ng the school board.
He was able to appear only a few
minutes at the trial. and collapsed or
the witness stand while he was deny,
Ing the charges. After he had beer
taken from the room the board voted
upon his dismissal and chose his sue
cessor. His counsel intended to carry
the case to n higher tribunal or to
Congress, but nothing came OF It,
He Is a member OF various .educa-
tional associations. lists himself as a
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