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Show ‘! tglad to arrange for the presentation or evsaenee in mg. Answers 4L: O Lowejcy guestions 'd‘~ Ebehalf; until that time I can see no good and to be galne f5 Eby such a meeting as you suggest. May I further add thaEWj: ffeel that any investigation must apply equally to all thfifit ;men concerned." ' é _ ' Very truly," (Signed) A. A.Knowlton. Dr. Knowlton, at the time of such meeting, was in a room across the hall from the roomnwhere the Board met; at the request of the Board, its Secretary went to Dr. Knowltom : and notified him that he could now come before the Board '{5: make a statement or reply ithe so desired; He sent word back that he had nothing to add to his letter. Exactly the ; '.fll same procedure was followed with Associate Professor Wise,zn§ under the same circumstances. Professor Wise's letter is 3‘as follows: "March 10, 1915n ;"To the Board of Regents, University of Utah." "Gentlemen: Believing that President J. T. Kingsbury has been under a misapprehension in deciding not to recommend me for reemployment next year in the University, and having failed in spite of well-meaning attempts to bring about an under:# standing with the President, I hereby petition your honorab le body to grant me a careful investigation of all the facts in the case. .r_ Awaiting your further pleasure, I am, Respectfully," g (Signed) Geo. C. Wise, is "Associate Professor of Modernlm, Languages in the University of Utahfi A majority of the Board chose to act upon Dr. Kingsbury'é statements as set forth incur anSWer 10, subdi vision (0). Question 13, Did the Board at its meeting on March IVthl" receive the petition from a number of memb ers of the Facult' "I; ‘I. asking that the charges against Messrs. Know lton and Wise, and the reasons for the other recommendations< f the Presidenfiv be investigated by the Board before action? Answer 13. It did not. L"? However, we have been informew py by the Secretary of the Board that the petition referred t}: has in his portfolio, and that he used his‘best effqrts fiffiv 4;; ; '.- X l iii-3' r |
