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Show Answer 17. present, Your committee knows of no reasons, past. or future, that are sufficient to justify the Board in refusing this investigation. Question 18. Is the Board at the present time willing to enquire into the reasons for the superses sion of Professor Marshall in the headship- of the Depe rtment of English? Answer. Your committee is willing and anxious to enquire into the repsons for the demotion of Professor Marshall in the Department of English. > Question 19. Does the resolution adopted recently by the Board, providing for a Faculty Relations Committee and for direct conferences between it and committees selected by the Faculty, imply that hereafter charges against professors, or recommendations reSpecting professors, will be investigated by the Board, or by some committee thereof, when requests for such investigations are made by a Faculty committee? Answer. It does. Question 20. If the Board is unwilling now to investi- gate the matters referred to in questions 15, 16, and 17, or any of these, and if the answer to the question 19 be affirmative, for what reason does the Board decline to take, with regard to the cases whch have recently come before it, the same sort of action which it purposes to take in similar cases which may come before it in the future? Answer. Your committee believes that there is no tenable reason for such a declination on the part of the Board, and that the Board should treat these cases precisely as it pro- poses to treat future cases. Question 21. If the Board is at the present time, willing to make the investigations referred to in questionslfi, 16, and 18, does it see any obstacle, in view of existing conditions, to making these hearing s public? Answer. In our judgment there are no obstacles in view of existing conditions to making the hearings and investigations referred to in Questions 15, 16, and 18, public; in fact, we University are inclined to feel that the best interests of the would be subserved by public hearings. QueStion 22. If the Board is unwilling itself to make |
