or unfitness of any member of the Educational Staff, than their fellow- 

 citizens of the State in general can know. The Regents believe that 

 they do know more of these matters. It they did not, they could 

 hardly maintain their self-respect in an office whose duties and obliga- 

 tions they had neither the faithfulness nor the intelligence to dis- 

 charge. The removal of that Professor was deliberate and well con- 

 sidered. And so careful were the Regents in regard to all its personal 

 relations, that the informal opinion of the Board, that Prof. Carr 

 should resign, was conveyed to him privately. Instead of accept- 

 ing that opinion and acting on it, as a true regard for the welfare 

 of the University and his own good name would suggest, he resented 

 the well-meant courtesy of the Regents and compelled them to re- 

 move him. He was removed for "incompetence and unfitness." The 

 Regents desire to avoid all personal controversy and all personal allu- 

 sions. They believe that they know what incompetence and unfitness 

 are, and that they have had abundant opportunity to observe and judge 

 during a period of five years for which Prof. Carr has held a position 

 in the University, and every day confirms them in the wisdom of their 

 course. 



Your memorial expresses an opposition to the appointment of any 

 Lecturers on Agriculture, because it would be a misappropriation of 

 the funds set apart (or the exclusive benefit and practical development 

 of the agricultural and mechanical departments of the University, and 

 of no material benefit to the people of the State. Now, Section 1 3 

 of the organic act creating the University makes it the duty of the Re- 

 gents to consider and decide the question " whether the interests of the 

 University and of the students, as well as those of the State, and of the 

 great body of scientific men in the State whose purpose is to de- 

 vote themselves to public instruction, will not be greatly promoted by 

 committing those courses of instruction which are brief and special 

 to professors employed for short terms, and for only a portion of each 

 year in their special departments, and to be termed Non-resident Pro- 

 fessors;" and other sections of the same law prescribe that such non-resi- 

 dent Professors shall not participate in the government of the Univer- 

 sity. Now, this whole plan, adopted from the organic law of Cornell 

 Unversity, contemplates the establishment of lecturers in the Univer- 

 sity, according to the most approved methods of instruction in the 

 most distinguished institutions. 



