The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-02

s book store OF Knoxville. 1t hap
4 pened that at about the time tn
e books came and were unpacked II
( the store. DR.. Sprowls superior
s Prof. Thackleton, was in the stor
e and happened to see the books ant
g asked about them. On learning WIFI
y they were for, he, without ceremony
told the management Of the store Il
5 send the books back to the publisher
: 1t seems he did not do the students
8 nor their teacher the courtesy tC
Y consult nor advise with them about
i. it, nor save DR.. Sprowls' standing
in the eyes of the students by having
: an understanding with him and let
> ting him order the books returned
Z Not satisfied with getting DR.
Sprowls into this embarrassment, he
, recommended that he be not engaged
, for the coming year. President
) Morgan and one or two others Of the
, faculty, who were taken into con-
: sultation on the subject of letting
DR.. Sprowls go, agreed that he
, should be dispensed with-> Naturally
, DR.. SprOwls and the students asked
for an explanation of such interior
i ence, and were not accorded any sat
isfaction until they took it up with
the governor and the board in a
I meeting called for that purpose. In
the meantime the matter had been
the subject of vigorous discussion in
the school, and it resolved itself into
a question of whether teachers and
students had any rights in the in
sitution that the management was
bound to respect, and the attitude of
the president and his supporters was
! that they had not To make this
! point palmer, six of the professors
who stood for fair play to all, were
dismissed, one day for six days.
Each one demanded a hearing and
got it when the governor and the
board met, and each one was turned
down by vote of about five to three.
They had expressed opinions that did
not accord with the opinions of their
superiors and that was enough; they
had been dismissed and they were
still dismissed and might look for
employment where they chose.
In the meantime the students had
become embrOiled in the question of
personal liberty as we'll as the ques-
ton of autocracy in the school, and
at graduating time some of them re-
fused to accept their diplomas at
the hands Of a school and a president
who would take such stand as that.
Several hundred of the students an
nounced that they were done with !
the school and would not return next |
year to finish. In the face of all this |
row, it is said, DR.. Sprowls was Of
fered his position again for next |
year and he declined it and said he |
had already engaged to take a chair
in the University of Idaho.
II this is a correct statement of
the row in the Knoxville institution,
and we think it is, the young fellows
who refused their diplomas have
thrown rebuke into the school
management that ought to hold /
them level long enough to clean up
the place and Americanize it. We
do not presume to say that the
book in question was fit or unfit for
the students to see; we take the
view that nobody with any degree of
tact or diplomatic sense would have
countermanded col
leagues order for books to be used
In the school or out of it without
first advising with the one who was
the mistake. Granting that
The books should not be read, 1t fol-
lows that when the books were sent {
back in this manner, every student
Interested would be determined to I
get one, and could readily do so thru :
a personal order which the ;
neddles0me professors could not in .
erefer with. te
When Rome was in its palmy days
here was a certain gentleman hold
ng position corresponding pretty |
learly with that of the present prime Q
Minister of some nations, who had s
he authority to appoint or depose {
enators, and he made a terrible K
candal out of the fact that one of
he senator's kissed his own wife in :.
ublic, and in the presence of their
wn daughter. To him it was a ter
IDLE thing, and he deposed of the
enator outright.
Now 1t happened that this very
trtuous prime minister had a secre-
airy, who was comedy and compan- u
Enable and she lived in his home. &c
lis own son was not exactly blind, A
nd took his father to task for graver vi
Kings than the senator had been
opposed for. At about the same
me, the comedy young secretary
lade proposal of marriage to the
rfme minister and history says che
as not in a position to decline"
either was the way open for him to
ccept
We are not saying that the case of
Cfnr In, t.,
arallel to the case of the president
the University of Tennessee-the
ne incident just reminds us of the
her.