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THE HESPERIAN.
cent number of the weekly Courier concern
ing the remarks of some speakers at the uni
versity. Any man in this day and age who
speaks of the head of the . university as "the
need hardly be referred to again. It is
sufficient to say that most of those who h'ave
been most bitter in their denunciations of
Mr. Herron neither heard his address nor
professor,1' and talks about "his policy" in read it as printed. Many others know so
such, a connection as appeared in the . letter little of what is transpiring in the world about
quoted, simply gives himself away from the them as to class anarchists, communists,
start. He has in mind, evidently, the old communalists, socialists, Christian socialists,
academy' with "the Professor" at its head, state socialists, and socialists of the chair, in
and under him some subordinate teachers one common category; whereas there is as
whose work he dictates throughout, and a wide a difference between some of these as
number of boys and girls concerning whom between heaven and earth,
he determines with absolute authority not As to Mr. Sherman's unfortunate remark con
only what they shall hear but what they shall cerning Mr. McKinley so far from being a
think and say. He does not yet understand part o the policy" of "the Professor," it
that the university is a collection of depart
ments at the head of each of which
stands a responsible man, skilled in
his work and an expert in all that
he undertakes; and only asked to con
stantly seek for the truth, and fearlessly
was at once recognized by all university
people as entirely uncalled for, unwarranted
and inexcusable. It had no relation what
ever to the .subject-matter which the speaker
had in hand, and apparantly no reason could
be given for its utterance. It was thrown
yet kindly and wisely direct his students . extemDore remark in the midst of a
along the same patn. ne reports to mem
what he finds, but he never dictates what
they shall discover.. Even text-books are
almost entirely discarded, and students left
to work out forjhemselves their own conclu
sions and to form , their own convictions.
This doen not take from the instructor a ljirge
influence, but it does take from him every
semblance of dictation or dogmatism. No
body of people on earth would resent the
manifestation of either of these characteristics
mere quickly than students of the university.
Nor does such a writer comprehend that there
are large numbers of young men in the uni
versity who have cast riot only their first vote
plea for the great middle class Mr. Sher-'
man spoke on "Neither capitalism nor com
munism, a plea for the great middle class "
and seems to have been the result of a mere
freak or whim of the moment. Had Mr.
Sherman been examined by a committee
prior to his appearance upon the platform
this outbreak could not have been prevented.
In every other respect his address was
thoughtful and philosophic, although by no
means convincing.
The writer of the letter referred to by the
Courier, evidently forgot that in the last
three years the university has welcomed to
its piatiorm ior iunniu auuresscs iu siuueum
but several votes, and others who are so near s Whitehead Hon.
i, . . t. u tw,tlrl tn frh rnn- r
tne young age as to ue ciiuucu - Jm L Webster Hon, james L, Woolworth,
sideration and respect due maturity oiuioug.u K. Hudson (editor of the Topeka
and character. Nearly three hundred stu- Hx)n chas p ScQtt (thft strongest
uents tnis year carry leamci menher of the last Republican senate in Kan-
have been at work themselves for a greater
or less length of time, molding thought, and
influencing character. These are. not child
ren to be arbitrarily held in hand and directed
in given paths; nor are they easily blown
about by every wind of doctrine.
The. case of Mr. Herron has been discussed
so long and with such acrimony that it
sas), President Seth Low of Columbia col
lege, Hon. J. S. Gilham of Red Cloud, Pro
fessor W. E. Andrews, Rev. W. H. Buss; of
Fremont, Chancellor Crook, Rev. Joseph T.
Duryea, Rev. Frank Crane, Prof. Von Hoist,
Hon. J. H. Mcintosh, Hon. G, M. Lambert
son, Hon. W. F. Gurley, Hon. C. A. Marple
and many others of like( standing. And it has