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1Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsAdd
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1917) November 27, 1917  
 Published:  1917 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date at 10:3- o'clock, with the following present: Rector Gordon and Visitors Craddock, Michie, Turnbull, Hatton and Walker, and President Alderman. I hereby lay before you, in the discharge of my duty as President of the University, a portion of an address made on November 20th at Sweet Briar College by Professor Leon R. Whipple, Adjunct Professor of Journalism in this University, and certain letters showing that it was the deliberate purpose of Professor Whipple, in his capacity as a professor of this University, to conduct a far-reaching propaganda for the promulgation of the sentiments therein expressed. I enclose an advance story on an address I shall make at Sweet Briar College tonight. I think it may be of interest in your territory as a Sweet Briar event, and also because of the larger interests involved. I hope you will find room for at least some of this as these principles cannot be too often enunciated. I response to your recent request to the Faculty of the University for changes in, or additions to, the list of subjects to be offered as free extension lectures, I desire to ask for the following changes: You are asked to dismiss me from the Faculty of the University of Virginia for uttering, publicly, the truth as revealed to my conscience. I am charged with acts that are declared not in accord with the purposes of this nation in the present war, and therefore, I can no longer be of service in this public institution, and am unfit to teach the youth who come to seek truth. Following my telegram twenty-fourth, Mrs. White wishes Dr. Alderman and the Board of Visitors to know that the newspaper account of Whipple's utterances have been read to Mr. White, and also Senator Martin's comments upon same. Mr. White heartily endorses the matter. Greatly regret engagement here prevents my attending Board meeting tomorrow. Assuming object is to consider Whipple, not wishing to condemn without hearing, but based on correctness of reports, my voice is for summary dismissal. Jefferson's University is not fit soil for seeds of treason. I have just received notice from Mr. Carruthers of a meeting of the Board called for to-morrow, Tuesday. Mr. Carruthers wired me Saturday, but I was out of town until this morning.
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