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tion to it simply as an evidence of the difficulty 

 which Dr. Kemp has in taking a proper view of 

 university questions. Everything is so bound up 

 with his own personal view as to what is due 

 him and his particular department, as to make it 

 temperamentally impossible for him to take any 

 other but a false view of this particular phase of 

 the subject. 



In my letter to the board, I tried to avoid 

 anything personal, and when I appeared be- 

 fore the board, to make my preliminary state-i 

 ment, I laid special emphasis on this. In 

 fact, I gave it as my reason, for appealing to 

 ■the board, that I could not locate where the 

 trouble lay. The dean referred me to the 

 president, and the president laid the respon- 

 sibility on the former dean, the present dean, 

 and the vice-president. I felt that I was 

 being shot at from ambush, and when I 

 stopped, like a man, and challenged, the presi- 

 dent would not bring us together, but said 

 the reports were confidential." 



When I found the president with his secret 

 memorandum, I had something definite. It is 

 the irony of fate, that in making the very 

 flourish with which he dismissed these alleged 

 charges, he dropped a paper which proved 

 most serious things on himself in stern 

 reality. I frankly admit that I am tempera- 

 mentally so constructed that I can not regard 

 it as either " fair or honest " for a university 

 president to make an attack on a professor 

 behind his back that he would not make to 

 his face. Furthermore, the same tempera- 

 mental construction forces me to feel that a 

 man who would not look upon such an act 

 as disgraceful does not " take a proper view 

 of university questions," and is not the best 

 type of man to intrust with the instruction 



' There is food for thought here. I have some 

 excellent friends, for whose opinions I have gen- 

 uine respect, who believe that a democratic form 

 of university government would seriously upset 

 faculty discipline. Here we have a typical mon- 

 archical form; and what could be more subversive 

 of faculty discipline, and of confidence, than what 

 I have just described? I finally came to fear that 

 the president had ulterior motives which he did 

 not care to allege; and that he was seeking cover 

 behind which to fight. 



of the youth of a nation. I do not mean these 

 for words of passing sarcasm. The idea 

 which they convey is of serious import to 

 the educational interests of the country. One 

 of the most famous educators of the past 

 generation has said: 



No educational system can have a claim to 

 permanence, unless it recognizes the truth that 

 education has two great ends to which everything 

 else must be subordinated. The one of these is to 

 increase knowledge; the other is develop the love 

 of right and the hatred of wrong. 



If we wish our system of state education to 

 endure, we dare not condone a serious in- 

 fringement of either of these fundamental 

 principles, for a recognized amount of ability 

 in the money-getting or in the advertising 

 line. The State of Illinois, for instance, is 

 not giving nearly $1,000,000 a year in order 

 that any man shall rear a showy structure, 

 and say, " Behold the great Babylon which I 

 have built." The people who furnish the 

 money have a right to demand — and will de- 

 mand — a clean administration, and a healthy 

 atmosphere from the president's office to the 

 athletic field. If anything half as bad as the 

 president's attack in the dark had happened 

 in connection with the management of the 

 football team, there would have been a tre- 

 mendous cry of " dirty athletics," and a 

 storm of righteous indignation would have 

 broken loose. The higher up we go, the 

 harder it is to correct abuses — but the more 

 important it is that these abuses should be 

 corrected. Geo. T. Kemp 



Hotel Beaedsley, 

 Champaign, Illinois 



QUOTATIONS 



AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 



A THIRD according to our informant, a fifth 

 according to Mr. Cruce, of the faculty have 

 been removed. They were removed with prac- 

 tically no notice; so late in the season that it 

 is really a remarkable testimony to their ability 

 that so many of them have already obtained 

 appointments in colleges of standing not un- 

 equal to that of Oklahoma University. Ac- 

 companying this removal, without previous 

 notice, was a refusal to pay the last two 



