| Show RICHES EMBARRASS OLD PRINCETON Trustees Meet in Special Session To Consider Graduate College Dispute SOME TALK OF RESIGNATIONS Trouble Je Is Over Ocr Proctor GUt Gift of oC half halfA A und and Legacy Lf Left l V Mrs 18 J T Princeton X N J Feb trus trustee trustees tee tees or of Princeton universIty who eru cled called Into sessIon toda today to consider maters matters In dispute with refer once ence to the graduate college accepted the report und and unanimously adopted the recommendations or of the special or of fe liVe appoInted to cn con suit sult with William Wiliam Cooper Proctor or of Cincinnat Cincinnati Ohio In regard to ills his ofer offer or of COI for a graduate college None of oC the tho trustees would talk and andas andas as th the meeting or of the bard board Is private the tend lend or of thing things wi will not be known until after arter the they adjourn when It a public announcement Is expected Talk of oC resignations Is stil still In the all air but butte te the reports cannot 0 be traced to ay any responsible source The he first Inkling of te the dispute was given In President Wilsons report or of orthe the board of oC trustees on Jan 13 which aster aitel mentioning the t fact t that a O gir gIft had been receIved last MY May tm from William Cooper Proctor 83 Cia Cin with the proviso that that an eual equal amount be raised b by May lay 1 1910 and that te the site be abandoned ll lland and a site suitable to the donol donor te be chOen chosen pr presented certain difficulties that have hae arisen In attempting to use that mone money and the bequet bequest of Mrs 18 Josephine Thompson Swann whIch now amount amounts to THE DIFFERENCES The differences ae are First Mrs lr Swanns wi will directs that the building for tor which her buest bequest waS meant shall hl be erected upon the grounds ot of the the said Id Second Mr Proctor contrIbuted hl his gift tor or the purpose ot of providing a place pineo of V graduate residence which should be set apart exclusively exclusive tOI or graduate students Mrs rs Swanns wi will explIcitly directs that the rooms In Inthe Inthe the John R It Thomson graduate college are to be rented at the best prices tho they wi wilt command to graduates seniors nUl and junior students of the university President Wilson doubts whether an any building set apart for tor the exclusive occupancy of graduate students should bl hO administered upon an Income bear bearIn bearing In ing s sA V A special or of fe five Was ap V V tn b by trustees to consult further with Mr r Proctor and secure nn an adjustment ot of the thc hut but In the meantime he withdrew I It was on reading the book prepared b by Dean Andrew F West Yot of oC the graduate school who ho II is opposed d to placing a gr college on the thc and believes In a segre segregation gation or of graduate students that Mr Proctor hits his lifelong friend volunteer volunteered ed the gir gift Tile The factions In the board of trustees and the alumni therefore arose sup supporting supporting porting President Wilson and Dean West cst |
