Show POLITICS AND COLLEGE PROFESSORS PRO-FESSORS I The board of regents of the Kansas state agricultural college has dismissed the president of the institution who had been with it some 18 years and some dozen professors and instructors The dismissal was because the professors pro-fessors and instructors were not in harmony with the fundamental principles prin-ciples of the administration That is a first requisite to all true learning in Kansas The San Francisco Examiner commenting on the dismissal of these professors and instructors says It is obvious that an instructor who teaches chemistry mineralogy zoology or physiology Republican way is out of place In a Populist institution Are the freeborn youth of Kansas to have their growing minds corrupted by the same teachings on the crystallization of feldspar feld-spar the cause of the glacial epoch and the shape of the vermiform appendix appen-dix that prevail in the plutocratic Institutions Insti-tutions of the east Are the unfettered daughters of the prairies to learn to sew with the same stitch that is practiced prac-ticed by the trembling minions of the money power Above all are the budding bud-ding Populists of the sunkissed plains to be forever manacled by the rules of a despotic mathematics under which the natural asniration of two and two to be something other than four Is relentlessly re-lentlessly crushed Z That kind of comment will appeal to the human mind but scarcely to the Populist mind To explain the workings work-ings of the Populist mind as seen In the highest perfection In Kansas will require an entirely new system of psychology psy-chology But is there any difference save that of degree in the dismissal of these professors and instructors from the Kansas state agricultural college because they did not believe in Populism Popu-lism and the dismissal of a distinguished distin-guished professor from Cornell university univer-sity because of his belief in free slIver slI-ver |