Show DR PATTON PATION MAY liME HAVE TO Students Demand Princeton Theological President Quit or Surrender DR PATTON IS DEFIANT Declares He Will Not Permit Board of Directors to toI I Interfere New York April 4 The The student body of or the Princeton Theological seminary has Issued an ultimatum to the board of ot directors and brought about a situation that Is unparalleled In the history of ot the university Dr Pattons Patton's resignation or or our rights This Is the demand for the students and comes at the end end of or a long and Interesting fight wase waged against Dr Francis L Patton the president of oC the seminary and antI the curriculum adopted by the faculty Dr Patton Is defiant He has stated d that he will not Ue l-e dictated to by the students If It the board of or directors fails tails to uphold him he will Immediately immediately immedi Immedi- II resign He says sas the students have insulted him In his own home and demands an apology The students students stu stu- dents will vilI all withdraw from the semInary seminary sem sem- inary mary If the board of oC directors declines to grant their demands Board nonn of or Directors Meets An extraordinary session of ot the board boar of or directors will be held In Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia within a few tew days There Thero seems to be no pr prospect of ot bringing about a compromise and the directors will vill by lw called upon to render a final decision either in favor of or the students or 01 the president and faculty In the early part of ot March the students students students stu stu- dents to forced reed the thc publication of a new curriculum by sending to the faculty a set s-ct of ot resolutions adopted by them They expressed discontent with the New and Old Testament departments under Professors ProCessors Armstrong and Davis Davis Da Da- vis respectively ch with the lectures In Theism as delivered b by President Patton Patton Pat Pat- ton with the vacancy in the chair of or homiletics with the lack of ot a course In sociology and finally with the arrangement arrangement arrangement ar ar- ar- ar of ot the tho class room schedule New resolutions have o been adopted and instead of or sending them to the tho faculty they have been forwarded to the directors together with a stenographic stenographic steno steno- graphic report of oC the answer made b by Dr Patton to whom the directors previously previously pre pre- referred the tire students This report contains a a. statement by Dr DI Patton In which he declared that as president of or the seminary and as a member of ot the board of ot directors he permit no Interference by the directors in the points at Issue lesue I |