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Show UNIVERSITY TO HAVEFREEDOM Salt Lake April 21 Hencefort b there will be academic freedom at the University of Utah. Jhe faculty wan given assurance of this yesterday by the faculty relations cdmmittec of the board of regents when the fac alts 'in(' ,np committee met in Joint session at the university. Without making anvrefernees to the past the regentF announced through Waldemar Van i'otf. chairman chair-man of the. committee on'vftru,t' r" lations. that "perfect aoadenjir freedom" free-dom" would bp accorded theNdUCSV tors who rom prise the faculty Oishc university. As this term is construed In educational educa-tional institutions, the professors arp free to teach, in connection with their work whatever thPir good spnse tells them No restrictions were laid down by the hoard ot regents committee com-mittee yesterday The protessor.-ma protessor.-ma treat of all subjects in an aca-demif aca-demif w.v. the theory of evolution anclenl philosophy, politics and r-I'glon r-I'glon erept that, of course, religion must imt he treated in a sectarian va Rather, fundamentals In religion, reli-gion, as they occur in philosophy, may be treated in an academic way. Knowlton Accepts New Pot. The conferenee of yesterday afternoon after-noon Is regarded by those professors who have not rpsignpd, but who were known m have manv sympathies In common with the men who did resign, as the most Important development vet at the university While the board of regents declines to consider past events, It makes definite eoncs vinnr, to the faculty never before so made Anothpr development of yesterda was the announcement that A A Knowlton. whose non-reappointment I has been one of the sensations of the luniversltj of Utah affair, had been proffered the professorship of phy? Mo rt I l I l.uili;fir, I uuiniiw, vii eu.-. had accepted, Reed is an endowed "college of culture ' The president Of it. Iir William T Foster, was in Salt Lake City Monday and admitted that he was seeking to fill some V.S cancies in his faculty No New Appointments. No new appointments to vacancies at the University of Utah were made yesterda Appointments were not discussed at thp faculty meeting, it being the understanding that no further fur-ther action respecting them be taken until President J. T Kingsbury and Dr. James L. Gibson, the newly ap pointed dean of arts and sciences have returned from the trip east They will go for the specific purpose of Interviewing professors who have ap plied for positions here. |