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Show AnsWer 10. (a) Yes. President Kingsbury also informed a committee of the Board and also the Board prior to karch 17th, 1915, that if the Board considered it best to retain either Dr. Knowlton or Associate Professor Wise, he, Presi- 'dent Kingsbury would (b) No. submit his resignation. Majorities of the Board at its several meetings (but not always the same Regents) believed each charge to be true, but there was a minority of the Regents (but not al- ways the same Regents) who believed each charge to be not Well founded. It is now impracticable to ascertain or state exactly how many Regents believed the respective reasons assigned by Dr. Kingsbury for not renominating these two professors. (c) The assumption in your question is repudiated and resented. In the public statement issued by the Board and hereto attached, pages 4 and 5, is the following: "As to Dr. Knowlton and Professor Wise, the members of the Board do not know of their own knowledge as to the truth of all the facts given by the President as reasons Why theSe gentlemen were not renominated. We believe, however, from the statements and facts suhmitted to us, that the President's reasons are well founded; and were it necessary the Board would adopt the President's recommendations on the akove grounds alone. It is not necessary however, for the Board to rest its decision as to Dr. Knowl- ton and Professor Wise upon the above reasons, because the Board knows that there is such a serious breach between the President on the one side and Dr. Knowlton and Professor Wise on the other, that one or the other must go. We, therefore, base our decision on that point. No public hearing, no judicial or other investigation can change or obviate the fact that there is a serious and irreparable breach. Shall we then part with Dr. Kinssbury. or with Dr. Knowlton and Professor Wise? There were Regents who did not believe all the reasons assigned by President Kingsbury to be true. Nevertheless, there was a majority of the Regents who believed each charge to be true. ' ‘1, '. The Board deems it impracticable now to ascer- tain or state exactly how many Regents believed the respect- |
