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invested in suitable securities ; (h) The income 

 from the funds shall be used for the purpose of 

 graduate medical and surgical instruction and 

 research carried on under the direction of the 

 board of regents at Rochester, Minn., with the 

 understanding that appropriations miay be 

 made for carrying on medical investigations 

 anywhere within or outside the state of Minne- 

 sota. 



10. That the agreement may be terminated 

 at any time on or before September 1, 1921, 

 upon one year's notice given by either of the 

 parties to the other, subject to the cooperation 

 of all parties to discharge to the satisfaction of 

 the university outstanding obligations to 

 graduate students. 



11. That the university accepts the gifts and 

 grants, and obligates itself annually to furnish 

 to the foundation until September 1, 1921, a 

 budget stating the needs of this branch of the 

 work at Rochester. 



CONDITIONS AT TB.E UNIVEBSIIT OF 

 UTAH 



The committee of inquiry of the American 

 Association of University Professors, ap- 

 pointed to report upon conditions at the Uni- 

 versity of Utah which have led to the resigna- 

 tion of seventeen members of the university 

 faculty, has made a preliminary report. Its 

 findings are concurred in by all the members of 

 the committee who have been able to examine 

 the evidence, who are : E. R. A. Seligman, 

 chairman, Columbia University; John Dewey, 

 Columbia University; Frank Fetter, Princeton 

 University; J. P. Lichtenberger, University of 

 Pennsylvania; A. O. Lovejoy, Johns Hopkins 

 University; H. C. Warren, Princeton Univer- 

 sity. 



The report is printed in full in The Nation 

 and in School and Society. Of the eight find- 

 ings of the committee three are as follows : 



I. With regard to the nature of the grounds 

 given by the president as his reasons for recom- 

 mending the dismissal of certain professors on 

 March 17 last, the committee finds as follows: (1) 

 Of the iovi charges brought against these pro- 

 fessors, two specify acts — namely (a) uttering in 

 a private conversation with a colleague an unfav- 

 orable opinion of the chairman of the board of 



regents, and (6) speaking, in private conversation, 

 in " a very uncomplimentary way of the university 

 administration"- — which are not proper grounds 

 for the dismissal of university teachers. (2) The 

 president of the university and the chairman of 

 the board of regents, by sanctioning the recent ac- 

 tion and publication of the board, virtually gave 

 notice that the expression by a professor, in private 

 conversation, of an unfavorable judgment of their 

 qualifications for of6.ce would be a ground for 

 dismissal. This attitude, imjustiflable in general, 

 the committee regards as especially unsuitable in 

 officials of a state university. 



IV. One of the causes of the resignation of 

 members of the university faculty was the exist- 

 ence of conditions before March 17, such that the 

 faculty had no proper means of bringing its views 

 on university matters — when its views differed 

 from those of the president — to the notice of the 

 governing body. It was, in the opinion of the re- 

 signing professors, partly in consequence of these 

 conditions that the board, on March 17, took ac- 

 tion which those professors regarded as unjust to 

 individuals and injurious to the interests of the 

 university. Since the resignations, the board has 

 adopted radical and excellently conceived altera- 

 tions in the plan of administration of the univer- 

 sity; these changes should give the University of 

 Utah an exceptionally advanced position among 

 American colleges, in respect to provision for con- 

 sultation between faculty and trustees. The com- 

 mittee hopes that great good will result from these 

 modifications of the university's administrative 

 machinery; it feels constrained, however, to re- 

 serve final judgment as to the actual effect of the 

 plans until their working under local conditions 

 has been tested by experience. The committee 

 deeply regrets that the board has refused to apply 

 its new procedure at once to the cases which have 

 recently come before it. The committee deems 

 itself bound, in simple justice, to note that the 

 credit for whatever benefits may accrue to the uni- 

 versity from the reforms mentioned, must be given 

 primarily to the professors who by their resigna- 

 tions made effective protest against the antecedent 

 conditions certain of which these reforms are de- 

 signed to correct. 



VIII. One of the gravest and most regrettable 

 features of the crisis at this university, in the 

 committee's opinion, is the attitude still main- 

 tained by the board of regents towards numerous 

 petitions asking for a thorough public investiga- 

 tion of the recent incidents and of general univer- 

 sity conditions. These petitions, which have come 



