Evening star., 1920-11-23
PRESIDENT OF G. w. u. REPLIES
TO PROTESTS FROM BAPTISTS
William Miller Collier Declares That Uni
versity Must Be Non-Sectarian,
Reviewing It's History.

States. 1t is. therefore. not irrelevant
! for me to say that Brother Harding is
; an honorary alumnus of the George
| Washington University.
3! Nearly all faiths are today repre-
sented in the membership of the
| board of trustees as well as in the
teaching staff. which comprises ESQ
t professors. assistant professors and
other instructors of various grades.
Vet no sectarian test is applied.
Among the 5000 students there are
Protestants, Roman Catholics. Jews
( and even IL few adherents of oriental
religions.
; Has Grown Enormously.
! During this non-sectarian period
! the university has grown enormously
in the scope of it's work. it's prestige.
and the number of it's students. It's
! financial resources are still inade-
ouate to its expanding needs and
its almost unlimited possibilities.
The university feels highly fat
tered by the attentions which the
Baptist Association would now show
to it, That it is to have so many
suitors is very pleasing. especially as
tie wooing apparently is 50 ardent
that it has stirred up such rivalry
that one suitor. upon the day which
/ it feared was to he the eve of our
me- rriage to anther. has actually
stood up in church and raised objec-
should not be Joined together.
, Speaking in loco PARENTS for this
university, which is being SO eagerly
sought after. l will admit that the
fact that one suitor. the American
University. is said to be worth So
suitor, the Baptist Association. comes
ito me saying that it can offer as
dowry large portion of Il $4,000
nt0 fund, does not diSqualify either
lof them as sutors Not even the
!, fact that the proposal Of the Bap-
list suitor is virtually suggestion
nf the remarriage of a divorced couple,
or. ct least. of the restitution of con-
jugal relations between parties that
have been separated. will cause me
to advise the university to scorn it's
attentions.
Ncthodists Must Press Suit.
Il believe there are very few juris-
dctions where either the moral law
or statute law prohibits such recon
citations and remarriages.
"Under certain conditions the uni
versity might he willing to be much
| more than a sister to the Baptist AS
Sociation, if the latter should really
desire to unite with it for better. for
worse. for richer. for poorer and to
worldly goods. it being understood
that this means good'v portion Of
the $50.00o,o0o If, therefore, the
Methodist suitor. the American Uni
versity. wishes to win our university.
it must press it's suit vigorously. Al
though there has been some talk of
union between it and our university
all rumors as to an engagement must
he and are hereby denied. No mar
riage has yet been arranged
Very soon | may be compelled to
ask both of these suitors if their in
tentions are really serious. l realize
that that places upon me the obliga-
ton to state some of the conditions
that this much wooed university
would insist upon before it would
forever link it's destiny with another.
To let these suitors continue their at
| tentions in ignorance of these con-
ditions. and then. with seeming
caprice, to reject them both, would
subject our university to the charge
of being f1irt.
Never COnsent to "Obey.'
We ought. then, to say that our uni
versity would never consent to fhe use