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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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