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Show H%[Swers bring it to the attention of the Board, but without success. ffLovejoy 7T~Questions In simple justice to the Board of Regents and to the Secretary it should be said that the hour was very late and that the Secretary did use his best endeavors to have the Bonn consider a number of communications addressed to the Board. On account of the lateness of the hour it was ordered that all further business be carried over until the next meeting. It was not until several days after March 17th, 1915, that the Regents knew that such petition was in the portfolio of the Secretary at the meeting in question. at this place to copy the petition, We deem it proper omitting the names of the signers, for the purpose of showing Just what the petition contained, and also for the purpose of showins that the request that the reasons for changes should be made public Was granted. In brief, the Board had done just exactly what the petition requested without knowing that the petition was there. The petition is as follows, omitting the names - 5 of the signers, J's-1+ ‘-' . - r . '27- to-wit: "At a meeting held in the Faculty room today beginning at 4:10 p. m., to which all members of the Faculty had been invited, and to"which the President made a statement, the undersigned members passed the following resolutions: Resolved, that in view of the public agitation, it be the sense of this Faculty that a statement from the Board of Regents, assuring the public that a hearing will be given each man affected adversely by the recent rec0mmendations of the President, and that the results of said hearing will be published, will greatly benefit the University." (The names of the 22 signers to the above petition are omitted In a letter accompanying the petition, Dr. Joseph Peterson, Chairman of the Committee having the petition in charge, makes the following statement: "I am authorized to state for most of those who signed this resolution--by an oversight the matter was not brought before all-~that the Faculty invites an investigPtlon of its own members as to their loyalty and attitudes toward matters involving the welfare of the UniverSltyo |
