The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1925-05-23
RUMOR HOWARD
PRESIDENT WANTS
A VICE PRESIDENT
President Not There to Offer
Terms When Strike of
Students Occurred.
Especial to the Bulletin-Appeal.) }

Washington, d. C., May 22.-Tht
Alumni of Howard University are
alarmed over the persistent and wide
spread rumor that President Durkee is
to recommend to the Trustee board al
its june meeting the creation of the of.
fce of vice president at large salary
far larger than that of any of the veteran
servants who have given to the schoo
its high standing among the universities
of the land. Large numbers of the
alumni are Ioath to believe that thu
trustees will be led into any such ex,
travagance. for they see that DR.. Dur.
kee hasn't sufficient work here to keef
him busy, having time to hold the presi-
dency of the Curry School of expires.
sion in Boston where no colored student
is admitted, and to head the difficult eff.
fort of raisin an endowment for thi.
undemocratic institution. They cannot
see why Howard shall be called upon tc
furnish another high salaried officer to
do the work of DR.. Durkee so as to
give him leisure to hold his other presi-
dency far removed from our race, ant
to make frequent fees for substituting
in the various white pulpits of this city
for all denominations. So that Alumni
objects to the creation of this wholly
new officc on the ground that there i:
no need of it.
Second, it objects because it means
the wastage of the university's meagei
funds. With large body of self-sup.
porting students in need of aid funds to
help them in their heroic struggle up
ward in the world, and the PROFESSIONAL
staff giving their valuable service al
rediculously low wage, it seems in
credible that the trustee board will ig-
more the real needs of the university
and divert its resources to the already
disproportionate cost of the president
Office.
The alumni has no candidate, for it is
distinctly opposed to such novel sug-
gesi Al; but if it must come we want an
educator and an administrator, one who
has appraised higher education sufici-
emily high to have acquired it for him
self, and one who has chosen education
as his life's work We hold that our
university should not be used to give
sinecures to aged men who have passed
their period of usefulness in other fields
There are many men and women in ali
departments of the university who
would dignity such an Office and be able
to render the university some service
by virtue of their long experience in
educational pursuits. We see the great
est of our alumni, Prof. Kelly Miller
whose scholastic achievements and lofty
station in the world Of education and
letters have done most to give Howard
her fair fame throughout the nation,
We see DR.. Sterling N. Brown, of the
theological department, scholar of fine
diplomacy who could do much to re-
hNNC utN hhihSbSSty SddutSu ISiduohs
between the president on one side and
the alumni, faculty and student body on
the other, so detrimental to the univer-
sity; gentleman whose wide contacts
with philanthropy could be used to
great profit. If younger man is pre-
ferred. why not Prof, Charles Wesley,
with his large influence over young peo-
pie and his standing among educators
and scholars? We could go on inde6-
nitely naming the splendid material al
the school, to whom such reward for
faithful service should come, if the triIs-
tees are determined to give the univer-
sity this Office which we hold should not
be created.
When the strike of the student body
occurred, the president was not here to
confer with the students and offer them
new terms, for he was off on one of his
frequent trips to Boston at the white
school administering to its needs. His
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