Show PROFESSORS P RO AS IN UPROAR U P A OAR I Stanford University Aroused Over Dr Ross Ros R Resignation R ignation I I FREE SPEECH SPEECE 4 FACULTY PY IS S DIVIDED D STA S ARE ABE MADE Stanford University Cal Nov NovEd Ed Edward vard Ross Roo head r r In tire the de do department de of economics economieS and sociology at Stanford University has resigned and will sever Bever his connection with the university university sity atty in Ia a few weeks The resignation n was and lid has caused CU ed a 8 stir sUr in university u It circles where W re Dr Rows ROM was extremely ly popular po ular In his formal letter of resignation r Dr Ross ROIlS intimated that he was being forced out of the university 5 ty tyby by Mrs lInt Stanford who had taken except ta t iZea to statements made by him in his public address on sociological and eco ceo economic nomie questions He further said that Mrs airs Stanford was prompted by certain powerful persons ned and commercial inter interests eats ests in San Francisco Or Dr D Ross has been connected with the university for seven years Several of f the faculty ha hay han taken with Dr Ross notably Dr Howard How d head of the I history department Result of Prayer I Dr Jordan president of the university said today In regard to the resignation of Dr I Roes ROBS it is right that I houE make fur further ther thor statement There IE is not the slight slightest est eat evidence that he be Is te a 8 martyr to free freedom freedom dom dent of speech Nor is there any reason to believe that his withdrawal has Jias been due to any pressure of capital or any an other sinister influence nce I know that Mrs declaration was reached only after long lon and earnest consIders consideration tion Usa and that its motive was the tb welfare of the university and that alone To quote her own words W My decision teion has not hot been th the result N of any hasty conclusion conclusion sion ston but of disappointment reflection re and prayer Dr Jordan says say The sen sentence nce enee quoted In a San SaD Francisco Francis x morning paper to the effect that men of large interest t eastern financiers as 8 a n rule have had a pert part p rt in ini inthe i the determining of the relations latiOns of Dr Dri i Ross Roes Is s one which I cannot accept as having been uttered by me The interests I to whIch the reporter report r meant to refer were j t interests in ia economic science not in finance D being shown Dr Jordans state statement statement ment mont Dr Ron Item dictated the following j It aIt is ia absolutely certain however that the freedom of speech is I involved not in inI I r my appearance personality pers or charac I i ter but solely my nonpartisan scientific utterances have been the root of Mrs distrust of me inc Defends His Friend Supplementing hU his former utterances mmes unon the subject of ot Professor Ross Rose die dis dismissal missal Dr Howard today addressed d his class in history upon the matter The entire hour of the class was given up to j the discussion of Free Fre Speech ch Dr Howard arraigned the influences Influence that thet I brought the dismissal of the tho th professor or r Professor Howard concluded his speech uh this utterance A I t do 00 not bow bo down to Saint Marget Martet Street Str et I do not doff dot my hat bat to the Six Companies neither am I afraid or of the Standard Oil n |